Tota Scriptura is a working title and, obviously, a work in progress. To offer a sense of the contents and the topics under consideration at this stage, please see the chapter outline below.
Given the length that this first draft is looking like it’s going to be, I have already altered the contents. The new structure is as follows:
1. A Crucial Cultural Moment (Christian deconstruction and dechristianization)
2. Which Evangelicalism? (Where is reform needed?)
PART 1: SCRIPTURE
3. Introduction: It Wouldn’t Be The First Time (Why consider the need for reform in the doctrine of Scripture)
4. There’s More Than One Way to Get High: Deconstructing a “High” View of Scripture (Why theologies of Scripture are debatable)
5. Let God be True and Every Man a Lyre: Deconstructing Inspiration (How truth is incarnated in humanity)
6. Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago: Deconstructing Inerrancy (Flawed expectations of biblical omniscience)
7. A Glass Darkly: Deconstructing Perspicuity (Flawed expectations of certainty in hermeneutics)
8. Greater than the Sum of its Parts: The Strategy of Scripture (A tota Scriptura model of hermeneutics)
PART 2: GOSPEL & LIFE
9. The Good Life: Deconstructing Hope (Dissociating the Christian vision from the American Dream)
10. The Walk of Shame: Deconstructing Victory (Contrasting Jesus and triumphalism)
11. Everything Dies There: Deconstructing Debt (A minimalistic, relational view of the atonement)
12. The Manifold Wisdom of God: Deconstructing Individualism (A reassertion of the Christian body)
13. A Necessary Evil: Living with Mystery (An armchair philosophy of the problem of evil)
14. Is Christianity Good? Living with Corruption (Confronting hypocrisy and judgmental Christians)
15. Gospel Ethics and the Leading of the Spirit: Living with Complexity (Unseating both moral proof-texting and direct guidance; working with uncertainty in ethics)
16. A Faith Community for Doubters: Reconstructing Church (Suggestions for reformations of the evangelical church)
