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“To relish the feast that is Scripture, we
need to use multiple models.” A Christian never gains all that Scripture
offers by reading it with just one approach. Yet too often this is
attempted—whether through an academic obsession with the
historical-critical method or through a consumerist approach that seeks
only the motivation of the moment. Mark Reasoner broadens the options
for scriptural engagement by describing five models of Scripture:
documents, stories, prayers, laws, and oracles. To illustrate each, he
uses examples from throughout the history of interpretation. While he
concedes that certain books of the Bible will naturally lend themselves
to particular models, Reasoner shows how an appreciation for all five
will enrich one’s scriptural insights while also bridging divides
between the various branches of the Christian family.
This is a bold book. It has to do with
changing the life of American society, from the inside out, through
"source action" of prayer.
"I have written a book for Christians," says Eugene Peterson, "who want
to do something about what is wrong with America and want to plunge into
the center, not tinker at the edge. I have chosen eleven psalms that
shaped the politics of Israel and can shape the politics of America, and
I have taken them seriously...I have written to encourage Christians to
pray them both as children of God with eternal destinies and as
American citizens with daily responsibilities in caring for our nation."
Peterson is concerned with the "unselfing" of our self-preoccupied,
self-bound society through the action of praying together with other
believers. He offers insightful, thought-provoking reflections on eleven
select psalm-prayers that can help us overcome such things as
self-centeredness, self-assertiveness, self-righteousness,
self-sufficiency,...
One of the earliest Christian
confessions—that Jesus is Messiah and Lord—has long been recognized
throughout the New Testament. Joshua Jipp shows that the New Testament
is in fact centered around this foundational messianic claim, and each
of its primary compositions is a unique creative expansion of this
common thread. Having made this argument about the Pauline epistles in
his previous book Christ Is King: Paul’s Royal Ideology, Jipp works
methodically through the New Testament to show how the authors proclaim
Jesus as the incarnate, crucified, and enthroned messiah of God.
In four superb homilies and a concluding essay,
Joseph Ratzinger, provides a clear and inspiring exploration of the
Genesis creation narratives.
While the stories of the world’s creation and the fall of humankind have
often been subjected to reductionism of one sort or another—literalists
treat the Bible as a science textbook whereas rationalists divorce God
from creation—Ratzinger presents a rich, balanced Catholic understanding
of these early biblical writings and attests to their enduring
vitality.
It has become commonplace in contemporary culture to
divorce spirituality from religion and regard the two as separate,
competing entities. Yet Prosper Grech, an Augustinian father and
professor of early Christian literature, recognizes no such distinction.
The Christian religion, he finds, is infused with spirituality—which he
defines not in a New Age sense but rather as the believer's full
response to God's offer of salvation in Christ." In this book, Grech
presents the essential spiritual themes of Christian belief for
meditation by any who seek to live out their Christian faith in its
fullness.
