NT Wright - Scripture and the Authority of God

The nature of scripture and in what way it is authoritative is one of the key debates within the church. As part of my own journey of understanding I have taken to reading on the matter. Here are the highlights i made from the work of NT Wright called 'Authority of Scripture. 

Wright's approach to narrative theology (see highlights from p. 122-126) have been transformative in my own approach to scripture and only served to confirm some of my own growing convictions in this regard. 
 
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In particular, the question of how the Bible can be ‘authoritative’ has echoed through a thousand recent debates in the life of the worldwide church. We have only to mention the question of sexual ethics to see at once how important, and yet how difficult, the question of biblical authority can be.

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Whether Lutheran or Reformed, whether Anglican, Presbyterian, Baptist or Methodist, or whether the newer Pentecostal churches, all officially accord scripture the central place in their faith, life, and theology.

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If we asked, ‘Is it true that Jesus died on a cross?’ we normally would mean, ‘Did it really happen?’ But if we asked, ‘Is the parable of the Prodigal Son true?’ we would quickly dismiss the idea that ‘it really happened’; that is simply not the sort of thing parables are. We would insist that, in quite another sense, the parable is indeed ‘true’ in that we discover within the narrative a picture of God and his love, and of multiple layers of human folly, which rings true at all kinds of levels of human knowledge and experience.

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