Still, despite our differences, generally trinitarian theologians are going to agree on a huge and rather complex number of detailed doctrines regarding God and God’s distinct relationship to the natural system in which we humans live. The differences are important enough that it’s easy to forget (or, as sinners, to willfully ignore) how much we actually do agree on–in fair-togetherness with each other! Consequently it is also easy for sceptics to forget (or to willfully ignore) how much we actually do agree on. But as the orthodox trinitarian author Dorothy Sayers once said, on much the same topic, “For this state of affairs, I am inclined to blame the orthodox!”
One of those many things we trinitarian theologians agree on, however, is something that my argument in the prior Sections has often involved and finally arrived at: God acts in history, even for there to be a ‘natural history’ at all; and we can expect God to act historically in regard to human sin. (Which is why, not-incidentally, there is a second half to that Creed I quoted the first half of at the beginning of the chapter!)
That history will itself be not only history but a story.
But what kind of story will it be?
If I pull together all the things I have argued up till now, what kind of story will result?
The result will also be the kind of story I ought to be looking for, to happen in our history, sooner or later.
Telling that myth, that story of principles, which I ought to expect and search for as history, is what I will do in this final Section of chapters.