O. K. Bouwsma, was deeply influenced by Kierkegaard. You can sense that influence in a succinct and beautiful passage in which Bouwsma emphasizes “that Christianity is something that happened, and not a theory or an explanation or a set of doctrines.” Because Christianity is fundamentally a “happening,” we rightly understand it only in terms of story. We all know that the story to which I have now referred is a long, long story and that the happening is a long, long happening. The happening takes place over many centuries, the story is composed of innumerable episodes—a story that is continued
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