Getting Involved with God

Rediscovering the Old Testament

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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“This is a book about getting, and staying, involved with God—what it takes, what it costs, what it looks and feels like, why anyone would want to do it anyway. It is at the same time a book about reading the Old Testament as a source of Good News and guidance for our life with God. The key piece of Good News that the Old Testament communicates over and over again is that God is involved with us, deeply and irrevocably so.”—from the IntroductionWith sound scholarship and her own vivid translations from the Hebrew, Old Testament professor Ellen Davis teaches us a spiritually engaged method of reading scripture. Beginning with the psalms, whose frank prayers can be a model for our own, Davis reflects on the stories of the patriarchs and the pastoral wisdom of the book of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs in helping us cultivate those habits of the heart that lead to a rich relationship with God.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2001-01-25
Mått147 x 217 x 16 mm
Vikt297 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781561011971

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Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Pain and Praise: The Psalms as Common PrayerChapter 3 Improving Our Aim: Praying the PsalmsChapter 4 “With My Tears I Melt My Mattress”: The Psalms of LamentChapter 5 “But Surely Not Those!”: The Cursing PsalmsChapter 6 “Lamenting into Dancing”: The Psalms of PraisePart 7 The Cost of LoveChapter 8 “I've Got to Turn Aside”: The Burning BushChapter 9 “Take Your Son”: The Binding of IsaacChapter 10 “The One Whom My Soul Loves”: The Song of SongsPart 11 The Art of Living WellChapter 12 Wise Ignorance: The Book of ProverbsChapter 13 Simple Gifts: The Book of EcclesiastesChapter 14 The Sufferer's Wisdom: The Book of JobPart 15 Habits of the HeartChapter 16 Desirable Discipline: Proverbs 8Chapter 17 A Fool for Love: Exodus 33Chapter 18 “Like Grass I'm Dried Up”: Psalm 102Chapter 19 Voluntary Heartbreak: Psalm 51Chapter 20 Serving in the Shadows: Isaiah 49Part 21 Torah of the EarthChapter 22 “Good-Faith Springs Up from the Earth”: An Essay in Biblical EcologyChapter 23 Greed and Prophecy: Numbers 11

Ellen Davis continues the core task of biblical exposition for the sake of the church. . . . Through it all Ellen Davis utilizes her considerable gifts of sensitivity to the text, attentiveness to the spirit at work in the text, and care for the church that it may grow closer to the God given in the text. Of special interest to me was her fresh reading of the Song of Solomon, which offers ‘the ecstatic aspect of the love that is the main subject of the whole Bible.' Readers will dip in at any point in this book and be invited to thinking and praying again and obeying differently and freely.

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