What Happened/Is Happening/ Will Happen?
The Story of Reality tells the grand metanarrative that runs from Genesis to Revelation, centering around five foci: (1) God, (2) Man, (3) Jesus, (4) Cross, (5) (Final) Resurrection — a metanarrative that corresponds with reality.
“Notice, you have all the parts of a good story: beginning, conflict, conflict resolution, ending. You also have all the pieces of a complete worldview: creation, fall, redemption, restoration” (39)
Often, I think we try to learn about what is taught in the Scriptures by way of piecemeal studies on various “verses” without realizing how the different pieces all fit into the larger puzzle.
Concisely and in accessible language, Greg Koukl — author of Tactics, president and founder of Stand To Reason (STR.org), and adjunct professor of Christian Apologetics at Biola University –conveys the basics of the account that accounts for what really has happened, what really is happening, and what really will happen.
This is not really a book on apologetics (making a defense) — though he does address the “Problem of Evil” a bit — but a work that will give readers a better understanding of the grand narrative of which we all play a part.1
Table of Contents
Foreword by Nancy Pearcey
Preface
Introduction: Reality
1. Confusion
2. Puzzle
3. True Story
4. Two Obstacles
5. Story Line
Part One: God
6. In the Beginning
7. Two Objections
8. Matter-Ism
9. Mind-Ism
10. Options
Part Two: Man
11. Beautiful
12. Broken
13. Lost
14. Evil
15. Wrath
Part Three: Jesus
16. History
17. The God-Man
18. The Rescue
Part Four: Cross
19. Footsteps
20. The Trade
21. Trust
Part Five: Resurrection
22. Four Facts
23. In Between
24. Perfect Justice
25. Perfect Mercy
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments2
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Sources
- Much of this description first appeared in a CatchForChrist Instagram post.
- Koukl, Gregory. The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in Between (p. 12). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.