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The Bible as Improv: Seeing and Living the Script in New Ways

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Thoughtful reflections on how we approach the Bible from our particular cultural and personal assumptions and social-historical background. Martoia uses several helpful models to illustrate how we live out the story, extend the story into our own time an culture by understanding the variety of stories and circumstances presented to us in Scripture.

Questions of how the Bible becomes practical when it arises out of and is presented in terms of a variety of communities over a variety of social and cultural settings. Martoia presents very practical guidelines on making sense of the Bible, helping people today make sense of the many aspects of the Bible that do not make sense if it is approached in the modern manner as a propositional rulebook or universal principles.

Martoia teaches us how to live the Story, improvising the acts of our daily lives based on the original stories. We become co-creators with God as we extend the Story in our individual stories, creating new chapters tha have never been lived before, but that are authentic in continuity with the true-life meaning of the orignal stories that became the Story.

Martoia declares this is what the Bible means as Story, not the wooden legalistic adherence to mental proposition to obedience to command because it is command. The Story is about authentic Life.