Bonus Eventus Refuting The Drama of Scripture by Bartholomew and Goheen

By Richie Cooley

The Drama of Scripture is a popular volume on theology that is being taught by many seminaries. This essay draws attention to some of the problems with this very earth/land-focused survey of the Bible.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richie Cooley
• Release date: Feb 3, 2024
• ISBN: 9798215514207

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Bonus Eventus

Refuting The Drama of Scripture

by Bartholomew and Goheen

by Richie Cooley

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Richie Cooley (2024)

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Table of Contents

I. Another Revolutionary War

II. The Heavenly Home

III. The Primacy of Evangelism

IV. Objective Standards

V. Bonus Eventus

Works Cited

Before getting started, let’s review a few notes…

*Old Testament Scripture is taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE® (NASB), copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

*New Testament Scripture is normally taken from the English Majority Text Version. Translated by Paul Esposito. Copyright © 2011.

*British spelling is often used, except for the quoted material, which normally employs U.S. spelling.

*Divine pronouns are normally not capitalized, unless they appear that way in Bible versions or other quotes.

*As a general rule, words that appear in brackets within quotes are not found in the original texts, and were added by the translators or are my personal comments, etc.

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After the defeat, the exiled emperor, Haile Selassie, gave an impressive speech on 30 June, 1936, to the League of Nations, chastising them for having done nothing to aid his country [modern Ethiopia] in its time of need [from Mussolini] and warning, ‘It will be you tomorrow’. His speech turned out to be prophetic (War Crimes; pg. 451)...

I. Another Revolutionary War

Had the West cared at all about the plight of Ethiopia at the time of its sorrow then it is very likely there would have never been a second world war. Not one shot may have ever been fired.

As you sow…so you reap…And sometimes the most significant harvests come about merely by neglecting to sow anything at all.

On that note, let’s take another look at the modern Western love affair with Christian nationalism which appears to be spiralling out of control, making many of the same mistakes that submerged the globe just a few generations ago. Seeking a lordly empire, the bedfellows of Christian leaders are indeed getting stranger and stranger.

The way Christianity has apparently reinvented itself overnight in North America may seem bizarre and jolting. In reality however, the change hasn’t come quickly. Rather, just