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| Author | : Miguel A. De La Torre |
| Publisher | : Orbis Books |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2002-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1608333418 |
This introduction focuses on how issues involving race, class, and gender influence our understanding of the Bible. Describing how "standard" readings of the Bible are not always acceptable to people or groups on the "margins," this book afters valuable new insights into biblical texts today.
| Author | : Miguel A. De La Torre |
| Publisher | : Orbis Books |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2002-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1570754101 |
This introduction focuses on how issues involving race, class, and gender influence our understanding of the Bible. Describing how "standard" readings of the Bible are not always acceptable to people or groups on the "margins," this book afters valuable new insights into biblical texts today.
| Author | : Miguel A. De La Torre |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
A basic guide to reading the Bible from the perspective of the poor, oppressed, and marginalized. This readable and provocative introduction to hermeneutics emphasizes how issues of race, class, and gender influence our reading and understanding. Reading the Bible from the Margins begins where other texts fail to go: with the perspectives of those who society ignores. De La Torre shows how traditional or standard ways of approaching the Bible can be unacceptable to those who are discriminated against, and that the insights and understandings of biblical texts from the margins are enriching and valuable to all readers.
| Author | : Bob Ekblad |
| Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2005-09-19 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780664235291 |
Exploring the challenges that both the churched and the unchurched have faced regarding giving and receiving the word of God, Bob Ekblad encourages us all to learn to read the Bible together as a whole. In this compelling book, he reflects on how Christians have often found it difficult to proclaim God's good news to every realm of society, while those who have needed it most have frequently deemed themselves unworthy due to social circumstances or sinfulness. In Reading the Bible with the Damned, Ekblad offers concrete advice on how to bridge this gap through a variety of insights ultimately leading to spiritual transformation. This book is full of examples of how Scripture changes lives for those who attend Bible studies and for those who lead them, offering practical suggestions on many passages from the Old and New Testaments.
| Author | : Warren Carter |
| Publisher | : Orbis Books |
| Total Pages | : 841 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1570753245 |
A controversial take on the Gospel of Matthew applies the text to history and discusses its implications for political power and spirituality. Original.
| Author | : Carolyn Custis James |
| Publisher | : Lexham Press |
| Total Pages | : 85 |
| Release | : 2018-02-24 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1683590813 |
The ancient book of Ruth speaks into today's world with astonishing relevance. In four short episodes, readers encounter refugees, undocumented immigrants, poverty, hunger, women's rights, male power and privilege, discrimination, and injustice. In Finding God in the Margins, Carolyn Custis James reveals how the book of Ruth is about God, the questions that surface when life falls apart, and how God reaches into the margins and chooses two totally marginalized women who, in the eyes of the patriarchal culture, are zeros. Against the backdrop of disturbing issues in today's world, this bracing narrative puts on display a radical gospel way of living together as human beings that shouts the Kingdom of God, foreshadows Jesus' gospel, and raises the bar for men and women, then and now.
| Author | : Raechel Myers |
| Publisher | : B&H Publishing Group |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2016-10-04 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1433688980 |
Born out of the experiences of hundreds of thousands of women who Raechel and Amanda have walked alongside as they walk with the Lord, She Reads Truth is the message that will help you understand the place of God's Word in your life.
| Author | : Eugene H. Peterson |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2009-07-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0802864902 |
"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 entrée into the formative, life-changing art of spiritual reading." - from the back of the book.
| Author | : Timothy K. Beal |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2002-06-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134799780 |
The Bible is often said to be one of the foundation texts of Western culture. The present volume shows that it goes far beyond being a religious text. The essays explore how religious, political and cultural identities, including ethnicity and gender, are embodied in biblical discourse. Following the authors, we read the Bible with new eyes: as a critic of gender, ideology, politics and culture. We ask ourselves new questions: about God's body, about women's role, about racial prejudices and about the politics of the written word. Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies crosses boundaries. It questions our most fundamental assumptions about the Bible. It shows how biblical studies can benefit from the mainstream of Western intellectual discourse, throwing up entirely new questions and offering surprising answers. Accessible, engaging and moving easily between theory and the reading of specific texts, this volume is an exciting contribution to contemporary biblical and cultural studies.
