Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 230
EAN num: 9780842338394
ISBN number: 084233839X
Label: Tyndale House Publishing houses
Manufacturer: Tyndale House Publishing houses
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: 2002-03
Publishing house: Tyndale House Publishing houses
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Good stories express what we already know deep within us--tapping into our highest hopes and deepest longings, transforming our mind and heart. Within the pages of The Divine Drama, author Kurt Bruner shares his powerful encounter with the most captivating story of all--God's story. In this three-part book, Bruner beautifully recounts God's story as an epic drama, leading you to a discovery of your own place on God's stage--and to tools for living out that role on a daily basis. Experience the awe and wonder of the story above all stories, and discover the significance of the part you play in God's drama.
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Kurt Bruner beautifully does what he set out to do--bring God and his divine story home to a thirsty heart. The divine, seen in a brighter, more personal light, made me love the story all the more.
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Being a student of theatre, acting, and the movies I really was looking forward to reading this book. I figured anything that would compare the Gospel and my life to the form of a play would have to be interesting. Unfortunately, THE DIVINE DRAMA wasn't as interesting as I thought it would be. It takes the story of the Gospel, simplifies it, and puts it into the form of a story. It makes a simple comparison of the Divine Drama to that of a play being written, but it doesn't really expand upon that premise. Nor does it in depthly explain how our lives are like scenes in a play.
With that said, the book is a decent read and would prove very interesting for someone who has never thought about comparing the Gospel story to a play or even one's life to a drama. However, if you really want to explore the similarities of life, Gospel, and drama read Frederick Buechner's TELLING THE TRUTH: THE GOSPEL AS TRAGEDY, COMEDY, AND FAIRY TALE or C.S. Lewis' GOD IN THE DOCK.
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The Divine Drama is an example of the postmodernism process. In other words, there is a new mindset yesterday that is gaining ground in our culture, and it is one of less statistics and more stories. Many yesterday do not want to be told that two plus two equals four; rather, they want to hold in their hands a grape, an apple, a pear, and an orange and have someone explain in story form how these items together come to the number four. Stories are replacing science, and fiction, too often, replaces facts. Kurt Bruner, however, does not lose the facts of the gospel in this book, and for that I am grateful. However, he has used the postmodern process to say what great theologians and apologists have been saying for years: however, they have used propositional truths to accomplish the same goal. We are in a day when this sort of "postmodernism story telling" is necessary to reach a certain segment of people. So, let's use it. Though I would certainly not put this work in the category of a C. S. Lewis, it is a fair product of the story-telling genre for those who like that sort of thing.
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