…is a relatively new systematic theology written by Kevin Vanhoozer. I have only just begun to read it but it has proven engaging and insightful so far. I recommend it to anyone who is intrigued by an approach to divine revelation which is based upon the importance of God’s involvement in the world from a dramatic perspective. Vanhoozer writes:

Revelation is not merely the communication of truths about God but, more important, God’s self-communication in act and word. Theology would know nothing of God if God had not taken the initiative to “unveil” himself and raise the curtain on the theo-drama. Both the content and the process of divine revelation are thus essentially dramatic. God reveals himself in the history of Israel and the history of Jesus Christ through a series of communicative initiatives–some verbal, some eventful–all of which are ultimately redemptive. The “event” of Jesus Christ stands as the culmination of a series of such revelatory and redemptive events, recorded in the Old and New Testaments, which together recount a single drama of redemption that is both covenental in its focus and cosmic in its scope (38-39; my emphasis added).