When it came to the Bible, Newbigin thought that both liberals and conservatives had succumbed to the metanarrative of modernity. He approached George Caird at Oxford for help in a recovery of the Bible. Caird replied, “You are asking for a total revolution in the way biblical scholars see their job.”39 My sense is that both Newbigin and Caird were right. A paradigm shift is required. Above all, God addresses us in and through the Bible, and we need not refuse – indeed we should welcome – that address in our lives and in our scholarship.
