Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes write by E. Randolph Richards. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Bible was written within collectivist cultures, and it's easy for Westerners to misinterpret—or miss—important elements. Combining the expertise of a biblical scholar and a missionary practitioner, this essential guidebook explores the deep social structures of the ancient Mediterranean, stripping away individualist assumptions and helping us read the Bible better.
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes write by E. Randolph Richards. This book was released on 2012-07-31. Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brandon O'Brien and Randy Richards shed light on the ways that Western readers often misunderstand the cultural dynamics of the Bible. Identifying nine areas where commonplaces of modern Western thought diverge with the text, the authors ask us to reconsider long-held opinions about our most beloved book.
Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses
Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses write by Jeremiah L. Alberg. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jeremiah Alberg’s fascinating book explores a phenomenon almost every news reader has experienced: the curious tendency to skim over dispatches from war zones, political battlefields, and economic centers, only to be drawn in by headlines announcing a late-breaking scandal. Rationally we would agree that the former are of more significance and importance, but they do not pique our curiosity in quite the same way. The affective reaction to scandal is one both of interest and of embarrassment or anger at the interest. The reader is at the same time attracted to and repulsed by it. Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses describes the roots out of which this conflicted desire grows, and it explores how this desire mirrors the violence that undergirds the scandal itself. The book shows how readers seem to be confronted with a stark choice: either turn away from scandal completely or become enthralled and thus trapped by it. Using examples from philosophy, literature, and the Bible, Alberg leads the reader on a road out of this false dichotomy. By its nature, the author argues, scandal is the basis of our reading; it is the source of the obstacles that prevent us from understanding what we read, and of the bridges that lead to a deeper grasp of the truth.
Evangelicals & Scripture
Evangelicals & Scripture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evangelicals & Scripture write by Vincent E. Bacote. This book was released on 2009-08-20. Evangelicals & Scripture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vincent Bacote, Laura C. Miguélez and Dennis L. Okholm present twelve essays that explore in depth the meaning of an evangelical doctrine of Scripture that takes seriously both the human and divine dimensions of the Bible.
From The Holy Land To Graceland
From The Holy Land To Graceland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From The Holy Land To Graceland write by Gary Vikan. This book was released on 2012-10-01. From The Holy Land To Graceland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Graceland is much more than a wildly popular historic house and tourist destination associated with a famous entertainer, and Elvis Presley is much more than the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. As former Walters Art Museum director and medievalist Gary Vikan shows us in his fascinating new book, Graceland, the second-most visited historic house in the U.S., is a locus sanctus —a holy place—and Elvis is its resident saint, while the hordes of fans that crowd Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis are modern-day pilgrims, connected in spirit and practice to their early Christian counterparts, sharing a fascination for icons and iconography, relics, souvenirs, votives, and even a belief in miracles. Vikan reveals the emergence of contemporary holy places—Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Grassy Knoll in Dallas, Place de l’Alma in Paris—and shows us that the saints of our day are our “martyred” secular charismatics, from Elvis to John F. Kennedy, Princess Diana, Michael Jackson, and others.
