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As I said, I would much prefer this kind of worldview. But it does leave some areas of concern and I do miss the idea of a return of Christ in bodily form in final judgement.

Grounding Biblical prophecy within the narrative-framework of the authors’ does not contradict the fact that the story, albeit somewhat in a different way, continues with us. Though one may interpret some or many of the biblical prophecies to be grounded firmly within history, or the foreseeable future of the authors’, does not rule out the fact that death is still a reality for us today, and that we can have hope that God will vindicate his people through resurrection and judgment, ultimately cumulating in a “new heavens and new earth.”

Andrew with his narrative-realist approach to Scripture interprets many of the apocalyptic expectations of the early Christians to have come to fulfillment within history, but, to the best of my knowledge, still sits firmly in the hope that there is still a future for the rest of the post-biblical church, namely in the resurrection and renewal of creation foreseen at the end of the book of Revelation and the other texts it draws upon – an image that looks beyond the historically rooted circumstances related with most other apocalyptic visions.

That is my understanding of Andrew’s approach (which I find in many ways to be a very good approach), but you better wait for his own response.