Insight from The Chronicles of Narnia: he Role of the Bible in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The role of the Bible is a vital topic many are wrestling with today. The most promising of the proposals made about this is that the Bible is one large, if rambling, story. God meets us in the witness to this story in the Bible and through the Spirit we are made a part of it. The biblical story becomes our story too. It’s in this story that discover the character and will of the God made known in Jesus Christ. We learn that we do not and cannot know God apart from the Bible’s portrayal of this figure. In short, through meeting God in the biblical story we learn that the most characteristic and distinctive thing Christian faith says is that its God is Jesus-like. So the Bible’s witness to Jesus, its revelation through him of God’s character and will, his word to us as a form of God’s presence, is its chief role in the church’s life. Yet too often we read the Bible for very different reasons. Devotional inspiration (a thought-for-the-day approach), an ethics rulebook, a doctri...