聖書全体のストーリーを簡潔にまとめると

ライトは本や論文のあちらこちらで「聖書全体のストーリーを簡潔に要約」するとどんなものになるのか、トライしている。

ライトが言う、the big story of Scripture、新約聖書各文書の背景となるメタ・ナレーティブのようなもの。

今回の抜粋:

The big story is about the creator’s plan for the world. This plan always envisaged humans being God’s agents in that plan. Humans sin; that’s their problem, but God’s problem is bigger, namely that his plan for the world is thwarted. So God calls Abraham to be the means of rescuing humankind. Then Israel rebels; that’s their problem, but God’s problem is bigger, namely that his plan to rescue humans and thereby the world is thwarted. So God sends Israel-in-person, Jesus the Messiah, to rescue Israel, to perform Israel’s task on behalf of Adam, and Adam’s on behalf of the whole world. He announces God’s kingdom, and is crucified; and this turns out to be God’s answer to the multiple layers of problems, as in the resurrection it appears that death itself has been overcome.

以上は、JUSTIFICATION: YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER、JETS 54.1 (March 2011) 49–63.（リンクはこちら）