Quotes about Narrative
the gospel of Jesus Christ is that, though it is a story
— Ravi Zacharias
His stories are so Eastern
— Ravi Zacharias
this grand and cacophonous chorus began when our primal ancestors told stories to themselves about the animals that they killed for food and about the supernatural world to which the animals seemed to go when they died.
— Joseph Campbell
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
— Walt Whitman
The conclusion affirmed by the narrative is that wherever YHWH governs as an alternative to Pharaoh, there the restfulness of YHWH effectively counters the restless anxiety of Pharaoh.
— Walter Brueggemann
prophetic preaching can take place only where the preacher is deeply embedded in the YHWH narrative.
— Walter Brueggemann
The withdrawal of the king from the narrative exposes the king as an irrelevance. The one with all the power can do nothing to save. Because it is only "my God who saves.
— Walter Brueggemann
The political agency of YHWH comes, in Israelite tradition, to be a stable, orderly cultic presence, but without surrendering any of the force of agency known in the exodus narrative itself. Thus "glory" becomes a cover term that holds together forceful agency and abiding presence
— Walter Brueggemann
The narrative knows the way in which hungry peasants, in need of food from the monopoly, will pay their money, then forfeit their cattle, and then finally give up their land, because Pharaoh leverages food in order to enhance his power. In the end, the peasants are so "happy" that they asked to be "owned":
— Walter Brueggemann
From beginning to end the narrative shows, with no rush to conclude, how the religious claims of Egyptian gods are nullified by this Lord of freedom. The narrative shows, with delighted lingering, how the politics of oppression is overcome by the practice of justice and compassion.
— Walter Brueggemann
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.
— Washington Irving
False Narrative: The Kingdom of God is Future No serious biblical scholar would deny that Jesus' proclaimed the kingdom of God. However, many scholars conclude that Jesus was not talking about our present world but rather an epoch in history that has not yet begun.
— James Bryan Smith