The purpose of The Narrative Christianity Project is to publish articles on the narrative nature of the gospel, and how this storied mode contrasts with doctrinal, historical Christianity and the theologies it generated.

    It examines the gospel primarily as a text that tells a story meaningful to us, as modern people, not as a series of creeds that regrettably came to characterize Christianity and dominate its discourse for the past millennia.  In this way The Narrative Christianity Project aims to shed new light on the possibilities of the gospel for modern people, to counteract the stultifying literalism of fundamentalism (as well as its uncharitable political implications), and to connect strands of modern pluralistic Christianity, such as the Emergent Church, Liberation Theology, and the progressive Church in general.  

    The hope is that by focusing on the gospel as a meaningful transformational story in our lives, The Narrative Christianity Project will help to overcome the dead hand of doctrine that has largely made modern Christianity either irrelevant or unacceptable to growing numbers of modern people, and to reintroduce a living gospel, one that is pluralistic, nondoctrinal, and upholds the significance of God's love in our lives, as the core message of the Jesus narrative.

    For 2,000 years Christianity has fixated on what people thought (or we're forced to say they thought). The Narrative Christianity Project asserts that the gospel is not about thinking certain correct thoughts about God, but about who we are and what kind of people we want to become.  
    
                            CHRISTOPHER MANES
                            Founder,
                           The Narrative Christianty Project
                            

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