Tota Scriptura: Chapter Outline

1. Introduction: A Crucial Cultural Moment (Christian deconstruction and dechristianization)
2. Definition: Reconstructing which Evangelicalism? (Where is reform needed?)

PART 1: SCRIPTURE

3. There’s More Than One Way to Get High: Deconstructing a High View of Scripture (Why theologies of Scripture are debatable)
4. Let God be True and Every Man a Lyre: Deconstructing Inerrancy (The limits of the inerrancy debate and the negative influence of apologetics)
5. A Glass Darkly: Deconstructing Perspicuity (Flawed expectations of certainty in hermeneutics)
6. Greater than the Sum of its Parts: The Strategy of Scripture (A tota Scriptura model of hermeneutics)

PART 2: GOSPEL

7. The Good Life: Deconstructing Hope (Dissociating the Christian vision from the American Dream)
8. The Walk of Shame: Deconstructing Victory (Contrasting Jesus and triumphalism)
9. Everything Dies There: Deconstructing Debt (A minimalistic, relational view of the atonement)
10. The Manifold Wisdom of God: Deconstructing Individualism (A reassertion of the Christian body)

PART 3: THEOLOGY & ETHICS

11. A Necessary Evil: Living with Mystery (An armchair philosophy of the problem of evil)
12. Is Christianity Good? Living with Corruption (Confronting hypocrisy and judgmental Christians)
13. Gospel Ethics and the Leading of the Spirit: Living with Complexity (Unseating both moral proof-texting and direct guidance; working with uncertainty in ethics)

PART 4: RECONSTRUCTING

14. Why am I Christian? Reconstructing Faith (My reasons for personal faith)
15. A Faith Community for Doubters: Reconstructing Church (Suggestions for reformations of the evangelical church)