I have something of an obsession with the idea of reading more deeply in a subject and coming away with a deeper knowledge of one specific topic, idea or area of thought. I almost never carry out this idea very far but this summer I am actually making good on a promise to read a number of books on Paul. So yay, me!
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100 books in 2020, Big Books in 2021
My big picture reading goal in 2020 was to finally crack the 100 books in a year mark which I have been approaching for a few years. I was able to accomplish that and so look for a different approach in The Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-One.
Continue readingJob: A New Translation by Edward L. Greenstein
Greenstein’s Job is a bold, highly original challenge to centuries, if not millenniums, of scholarship and theology. It is a no-holds-barred assertion of a new way of looking at Job, the honest, upright gentile who, in the biblical book, is afflicted with waves of misery from God and asks the Deity: Why me?
Continue readingReview: Listening to the Bible: The Art of Faithful Biblical Interpretation
I enjoyed Bryan’s approach: an acknowledgement of the contributions of historical criticism and a return to reading scripture in its context but with it an understanding that we read from a position and from within a community – the community of faith.
Continue readingReview: Listening to the Bible: The Art of Faithful Biblical Interpretation
I enjoyed Bryan’s approach: an acknowledgement of the contributions of historical criticism and a return to reading scripture in its context but with it an understanding that we read from a position and from within a community – the community of faith.
Continue readingSurprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues by N.T. Wright
Wright wants to use what historical research might teach us, and read scripture as its authors intended rather than with the philosophical assumptions of the modern age. He seeks to navigate between the fundamentalism of the right and the vague spiritualism of the left.
Continue readingThe First Time We Saw Him by Matt Mikalatos
If you are interested in a creative and well intentioned attempt to place the life of Jesus into the language and culture of today, you will enjoy this book. But if, like me, you are looking for something a little more ambitious or challenging you might be disappointed.
Continue readingThe First Time We Saw Him by Matt Mikalatos
If you are interested in a creative and well intentioned attempt to place the life of Jesus into the language and culture of today, you will enjoy this book. But if, like me, you are looking for something a little more ambitious or challenging you might be disappointed.
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