Saving the Bible from Ourselves – Learning to Read and Live the Bible Well - Softcover

Paauw, Glenn R.

 
9780830851249: Saving the Bible from Ourselves – Learning to Read and Live the Bible Well
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0830851240 ISBN 13: 9780830851249
Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press,US, 2016

Synopsis

  • ECPA 2017 Christian Book Award Finalist
Does the Bible need to be saved? Over the course of the centuries, Bible scholars and publishers have increasingly added "helps"―chapter divisions, verses, subheads, notes―to the Bible in an effort to make it easier to study and understand. In the process, however, these have led to sampling Scripture rather than reading deeply. According to author Glenn R. Paauw, the text has become divorced from the Bible's literary and historical context, leading to misinterpretation and a "narrow, individualistic and escapist view of salvation." Rather than being a culture-shaping force, the Bible has become a database of quick and easy answers to life's troubling questions. But these deficiencies can be corrected by engaging in what the author calls "big readings." In these pages Paauw introduces us to seven new (to us) understandings of the Bible as steps on the path to recovering one deeply engaged Bible. With each "new" Bible presented, deficiencies in how we currently interact with the Bible are explored, followed by recommendations for a new practice. The Bible's transformative power is recovered when we remove the chains Christians have applied to it over the centuries. The Bible does not need to be saved because of any defect in itself, but because we have distorted and misread it. Saving the Bible from Ourselves provides students of the Bible a new paradigm for reading and living the Bible well.

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About the Author

Glenn R. Paauw is vice president, global Bible engagment, at Biblica and a senior fellow at the Institute for Bible Reading. A native of Colorado, Glenn loves to climb the state?s 14,000-foot peaks and to cycle the back roads of the Front Range.

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Publisher
Inter-Varsity Press,US
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0830851240
ISBN 13 
9780830851249
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
230

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