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Observing a strange disappearance of doctrine within the church, Kevin Vanhoozer argues that there is no more urgent task for Christians today than to engage in living truthfully with others before God. He details how doctrine serves the church—the theater of the gospel—by directing individuals and congregations to participate in the drama of what God is doing to renew all things in Jesus Christ....

work of the Son and Spirit. The doctrine of the Trinity thus serves both as an identification of the dramatis personae and as a precis of the drama itself. “He is risen indeed!” The Latin church father Tertullian defines a person as “one who speaks and acts.” Speaking and acting are, as we have seen, the main ingredients of drama. The script of a play is mainly dialogue, with occasional stage directions, and the dialogue often carries the action because saying
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