The One Story
1. The Story
Stories and the Story
Structure
Life
The Story behind All Stories
The Story in Our Times
What We Have against Stories and What to Do about It
Narrative Theology
The Problem of Particularity
The Story Matters
The Unity of the Story
2. An Odd Thing about That Story
Jesus, Human God
God the Impassible
Jesus the Impossible
Beginning with Jesus
Kenosis
The Kenosis of Christ
The Kenosis of the Trinity
Kenosis and the Creation-Redemption Story
Jesus Is Our God
The Oddness of the Story
Kenosis Is Not an Attribute
3. Freedom and Love
God
The Universe
The Image of God
God Is Personal
Freedom and Commitment
4. A Place for Us
Alongside the Infinite
Between the Waters
For Theological Speech
For Space and Time
For Other Wills
For the One Story
5. Falling
Tales of Rebellion
The First Story
What Sin Is
Life Goes On
Cain’s Misinterpretation
Truthfulness
How Did Sin Begin?
Universality
It Is Not God’s Fault
The Fall
The Fall Is Part of the Creation-Redemption Story
6. The One Problem
Oddly Divided
Ghosts and Dirty Jokes
Nakedness
Death
The Argument from Our Dividedness
The Fight
Envy and the Ritual of Accusation
Sin as Power Struggle
Power Games
Legality and Other Means of Justification
7. Myths, Heroes, and Monsters
Ends and Means
The Problem with the Problem
False Endings
Myths of Knowledge and Goodness
The Knowledge Adam and Eve Wanted
Does It Do Any Good?
The Joy of Knowing
Maturity
Idealism
Freedom and Captivity
HAL and Other Homicidal Deities
Who Are They?
What Are We Afraid Of?
Fear Not
8. Redemption
Freedom and Captivity
Divine Illogic
Gospel Stupidity
How Does Grace Happen?
Theories
Jesus Does It Right
Staying on His Own Course
Staying on the Human Course
The New Beginning
The Powers Are Defeated
Jesus, Warrior and Son
Tying Up the Strong Man
The Methods of His Warfare
But What Is the Theory?
The Reversal That Is Not Really a Reversal
9. How the Odd Story Converts Us
Faith
Divine Kenosis
Faith Comes by Hearing
Justification
Who Is Justified?
Whose Justification?
Self-Justification
Confession and Testimony
Retelling the Story as My Story
Going Public and Uniting with the Community
Freedom
Restored
For Us and for Creation
10. Following
Whom We Follow
Jesus Is Our Teacher
He Has Interrupted the Cycle
He Is Our Model
Metaphors for Followers
The Cross-Bearer
The Child and the Slave
Whose Slaves?
False Endings
King Jesus
Ethics
Nevertheless
Persuasion
Personalism
Perfection
11. Witness to Freedom
Free Not to Govern
The Odd King
Pictures of the Church
Why We Obey Laws
A False Ending: Differentiating “Forms of Government”
“It Shall Not Be So among You”
Bearing Witness
The Manner of Our Churchliness
Leading the Way Out of Fear
The One Story 