Eat This Book

by Peterson, Eugene H.

• ISBN13: 9780802864901
• ISBN10: 0802864902
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: EERDMAN

Summary

Eugene Peterson maintains that how we read the Bible is as important as that we read it. The second volume of Peterson's momentous five-part work on spiritual theology, Eat This Book challenges us to read the Scriptures on their own terms, as God's revelation, and to live them as we read them. Countering the widespread practice of using the Bible for self-serving purposes, Peterson here serves readers with a nourishing entre into the formative, life-changing art of spiritual reading. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Eugene Peterson, author of the popular contemporary translation of the Bible titled The Message, is professor emeritus of spiritual theology at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia. His many other books include The Jesus Way, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, and Tell It Slant.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. x
"The Forbidding Discipline of Spiritual Reading"	p. 1
Eat This Book	p. 13
The Holy Family at Table with Holy Scripture	p. 15
Scripture As Text: Learning what God Reveals	p. 23
The Revealing and Revealed God	p. 24
The Holy Trinity: Keeping It Personal	p. 25
Depersonalizing the Text	p. 28
The Replacement Trinity	p. 31
Hoshia	p. 35
Scripture As Form: Following the Way of Jesus	p. 37
The Story	p. 40
The Sentence	p. 49
Scripture As Script: Playing Our Part in the Spirit	p. 59
The Uncongenial Bible	p. 63
The Immense World of the Bible	p. 67
Obedience	p. 69
Reading Scripture Liturgically	p. 72
Virtuoso Spirituality	p. 76
Lectio Divina	p. 79
Caveat Lector	p. 81
"Ears Thou Hast Dug for Me"	p. 90
Lectio	p. 92
Meditation	p. 98
Oratio	p. 103
Contemplatio	p. 109
The Company of Translators	p. 119
God's Secretaries	p. 121
Translation into Aramaic	p. 122
Translation into Greek	p. 126
Translation into American	p. 130
The Message	p. 137
Oxyrhynchus and Ugarit	p. 141
Lost in Translation	p. 167
Appendix: Some Writers on Spiritual Reading	p. 177
Index of Subjects and Names	p. 181
Index of Scripture References	p. 185
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