as a springboard to draft the narrative world of 1 Peter.1 In 2004, J. Ramsey Michaels acknowledged the presence of narrative within 1 Peter. He suggests, ‘While not a narrative in the strict sense, 1 Peter could be thought of as Peter’s passion narrative in the sense that it purports to give the author’s testimony to the “sufferings of Christ” ’.2 More recently, J. de Waal Dryden, in his monograph Theology and Ethics in 1 Peter, draws on the notions of symbolic universe, developed by Peter Berger,