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#53 – Up, Up, and Away?
Knowing Faith
The Tension Between Descriptive and Prescriptive Historical Narrative
Historical narrative is trying to root God's people in things that are actually happening in history or happened in history. So, Luke is writing this to Theophilus, but ultimately, he knows this is going to be read outside this one reader. And it's important to remember with any historical narrative that you need to keep in view that it is written with an agenda. That's what every historical retelling is when we get down to the base of it. But because it's historical narrative, one of the genre rules that you want to pay attention to that is not always intuitive for Bible readers is to be asking if I'm reading descriptive or prescriptive.
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