the sacraments. One instance of this failure resulted from the eclipse of biblical narrative beginning in the modern period. Hans Frei’s The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative chronicles this.12 Modern attempts to justify scripture’s legitimacy as fundamentally a textbook for gleaning doctrinal truths (fundamentalist-evangelicalism), exemplifying moral and philosophical ideals (liberalism), and demonstrating relevance for practical living (seeker-sensitive Christianity) fail to register that the Bible