Download or read book In the Beginning Were Stories, Not Texts written by Choan-Seng Song and published by James Clarke Company. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Song, the Christian faith is deeply rooted in storytelling: stories are the most basic mode of human communication and, in the same idea, the Christian Bible is fundamentally a collection of stories. Christian theology is most often expressed in terms of concepts, ideas, and systems.