Right-brain Grip of Certitude

Earlier this year I worked through the book, The Bible Made Impossible, by Christian Smith on this blog. So much has that book impacted me that I continue exploring the premise of the book and am finding many serious Bible scholars saying similar things about scripture that Smith does. I've been looking for writings on this topic that are in simpler language, and at the end of my final post about The Bible Made Impossible I listed some other books along these lines: (http://nitasbookclub.blogspot.com/2012/03/afterthoughts-bible-made-impossible.html) 
I'd like to recommend another book which is very readable: Sacred Word, Broken Word by Kenneth Sparks:  http://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Word-Broken-Authority-Scripture/dp/0802867189/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344114293&sr=8-1&keywords=sacred+word+broken+word

Just this week I came across one of the clearest and easiest-to-understand articles on this topic that I've read thus far (and I've read many). The author is Jeff Clarke, and the following is a short portion from it:

"...Scripture is not a depository of propositional truth statements to be mined, but a witness to God's gracious and redemptive activity. Scripture is story, a redemptive story, that seeks to draw people in and invite them to become part of what God is doing in the world...We need to allow scripture to be free of our right-brain grip of certitude and learn the art of embracing the openness and ambiguity of the story and its characters. If God isn't afraid of the human ambiguity in scripture, why should we be? We've been given what we need to know to make us wise to salvation; filled as it is with parable, paradox and punctuations of uncertainty…
We need not fear imperfection, but learn to embrace the perfect One within it - Jesus, the Living Word…"

I heartily recommend reading the entire article for the context of this quote; you can find it here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thepangeablog/2012/08/03/embracing-the-humanity-of-the-bible-listening-for-the-divine-through-human-words/