Blue Parakeet : Rethinking How You Read the Bible

by Scot McKnight, Author of The Jesus Creed

• ISBN13: 9780310284888
• ISBN10: 0310284880
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

Why Can't I Just Be a Christian?" Parakeets make delightful pets. We cage them or clip their wings to keep them where we want them. Scot McKnight contends that many, conservatives and liberals alike, attempt the same thing with the Bible. We all try to tame it. McKnight's The Blue Parakeet has emerged at the perfect time to cool the flames of a world on fire with contention and controversy. It calls Christians to a way to read the Bible that leads beyond old debates and denominational battles. It calls Christians to stop taming the Bible and to let it speak anew for a new generation. In his books The Jesus Creed and Embracing Grace, Scot McKnight established himself as one of America's finest Christian thinkers, an author to be reckoned with. In The Blue Parakeet, McKnight again touches the hearts and minds of today's Christians, this time challenging them to rethink how to read the Bible, not just to puzzle it together into some systematic theology but to see it as a Story that we're summoned to enter and to carry forward in our day. In his own inimitable style, McKnight sets traditional and liberal Christianity on its ear, leaving readers equipped, encouraged, and emboldened to be the people of faith they long to be.

Table of Contents

The Book and I	p. 9
The Birds and I	p. 22
Story: What Is the Bible?
Inkblots and Puzzles	p. 41
It's a Story with Power!	p. 55
The Plot of the Wiki-Stories	p. 66
Listening: What Do I Do with the Bible?
From Paper to Person	p. 83
God Speaks, We Listen	p. 94
The Boring Chapter (on Missional Listening)	p. 104
Discerning: How Do I Benefit from the Bible?
The Year of Living Jesus-ly	p. 115
Finding the Pattern of Discernment	p. 129
Women in Church Ministries Today
The Bible and Women	p. 153
What Did Women Do in the Old Testament?	p. 163
What Did Women Do in the New Testament?	p. 176
Silencing the Blue Parakeet (1)	p. 186
Silencing the Blue Parakeet (2)	p. 197
Now What?	p. 208
After Words	p. 213
Appendices
A Discernment Quiz	p. 215
Images of Jesus	p. 220
1 Corinthians 14:34-35	p. 224
Petronius on the New Roman Woman	p. 226
Juvenal on First-Century Women	p. 228
Notes	p. 230
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