Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading

by Eugene H. Peterson, Grover Gardner (Narrated by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2000003478231
Publisher:	christianaudio
Publication date:	04/24/2007
Edition description:	Unabridged

About the Author

EUGENE H. PETERSON is a writer poet and retired pastor. He has authored more than thirty-four books (not including The Message). He is Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver British Columbia. Eugene also

Table of Contents

1	"The forbidding discipline of spiritual reading"	1
2	The holy family at table with holy scripture	15
3	Scripture as text : learning what God reveals	23
4	Scripture as form : following the way of Jesus	37
5	Scripture as script : playing our part in the spirit	59
6	Caveat lector	81
7	"Ears thou hast dug for me"	90
8	God's secretaries	121
9	The message	137
App	Some writers on spiritual reading	177

Editorial Reviews

Pastor-poet Eugene H. Peterson is best known as the translator of the contemporary-language Bible called The Message and as the author of Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places. In this accessible book, he continues the informal conversation on faith that he began in the latter book, in an attempt to rescue theology from the twin threats of dogma and degradation.