In The Beginnng Were Stories, Not Texts

Abstract

The strange thing is that Christian theology, although trying to serve the story book called Bible, has largely been theology of ideas, concepts and texts. This is a grave mistake most of our theological fathers and mothers made. I also found that this is why Christian theologians, among them Minjung theologians, have not been able to make a breakthrough in their efforts to develop theologies in Asia. They get stuck in ideas, concepts and texts from the western theologies and bogged down in the latter’s theological quagmire. The outcome is a little like what the prophet Isaiah in ancient Israel said (Isaiah 28:10):