Narrative
This component of good storytelling includes a time and a place.
What is a setting?
Metanarrative is also known as this.
What is an overarching narrative/grand story?
Historical narrative is a historical account told as this.
What is story/story form?
This attribute means the Bible is complete and includes everything necessary and relevant.
What is comprehensive?
As a normative book, the Bible establishes standards of belief and this.
What is behavior?
This worldview sees all history as class warfare and is often represented by an upraised fist.
What is Marxism?
An author is interested in communicating this message or idea through a story.
What is a theme?
Captain America and Iron Man are part of this larger metanarrative.
What is the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Biblical genres that are not strictly historical narrative include poetry, letters, prophecies and this.
What is wisdom literature?
The Bible speaks of the reality of this garden-dwelling character, but not where it came from or why.
What is the tempter/serpent?
The Bible’s coherence can be more clearly seen when the big story is outlined in this number of acts.
What is six/six acts?
Adherents of this worldview put faith in human progress and ability, often seeing their perspective as neutral, as it is atheistic/agnostic.
What is secularism?
Luke Skywalker, Winnie-the-Pooh, Captain America, and Goliath are all examples of this.
What are characters?
The history of this country could be seen as a metanarrative composed of related immigration stories.
What is the history of the United States?
Historical narratives are not based on imagination, they are based on this.
What is reality?
Because the Bible is comprehensive, it tells us all we need to know about who?
Who is God
The command “You shall not steal” is part of this set of moral norms listed in Exodus.
What is the Ten Commandments?
Islam centers on the life of this man, whom Muslims believe was a prophet.
Who is Mohammed?
This story element is shown in the Bible when David hears Goliath’s challenge, fights the giant in battle, and emerges victorious.
What is a plot?
The Hobbit scene when the daylight broke just in time to turn the trolls into stone is reminiscent of this part of the biblical metanarrative.
What is the coming of Christ into the world/incarnation of Christ?
Historical accounts told in story form account for this much of the Bible.
What is 50 percent/half?
Apparent biblical contradictions can be resolved by understanding metanarrative and reading verses in this.
What is context?
This attribute/ descriptor means the Bible is orderly, logical, and has a consistent nature.
What is coherent?
The comprehensive nature of the Bible contrasts with this major worldview, which leaves us lost and without purpose in the middle of the story.
What is postmodernism?