master narratives the Bible offers a radically different account that claims for itself an authority that rests in the unique deity whose existence the entire story presupposes—a story communicated through an unprecedented collection of books, penned by human authors under divine inspiration. At the heart of the biblical metanarrative is ‘the story of God’s mission through God’s people in their engagement with God’s world for the sake of the whole of God’s creation’.4 Rightly, the emphasis falls
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