Eugene H. Peterson: Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading

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


Description

Eugene Peterson's landmark Spiritual Theology series is foundational reading for the twenty-first century Church. The product of Peterson's many years' experience as both pastor and professor of the highest calibre, this series combines first-class scholarship and genuine, lived application. Beautifully written, its presents a fresh and urgent evaluation of contemporary Christian spirituality. 'St John walks up to the angel and say, "Give me the book."' writes Peterson. 'The angel hands it over, "Here it is; eat it, eat the book." And John does. He eats the book - not just reads it - he got it into his nerve endings, his reflexes, his imagination. The book he ate was Holy Scripture.' Eat This Book encourages the art of the reading the Bible so that it becomes a text for living and growing, not just thinking or behaving, and recasts the ancient discipline of lectio divina - spiritual reading - for a postmodern culture. Also available in the Spiritual Theology series: Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, The Jesus Way, The Word Made Flesh and Practise Resurrection.

The bestselling writer Paula Gooder continues her exploration of the Christian year, with its different seasons and moods, and the varying messages they convey. Here, she explores the longest period of the liturgical year, ordinary time - 33 weeks where no great dramas occur. We live in a culture that revels in the special, the extraordinary, the new, the unusual. This can relegate ordinary life to a bland 'in between-ness' as we look for The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology download book the next excitement or novelty. This is a tendency that affects the church as much as wider culture as it seeks new ways of doing the familiar old things and reinventing itself. Yet, 'the ordinary' is the very essence of life. The point of special occasions is not to lift us out of humdrum existence but to embed us more powerfully in ordinary, day to day life. We need to learn how to live ordinary life in an extraordinary way. This book explores how to do this through reflections on 33 biblical texts reflecting on how God breaks into everyday life, transforming it into the most extraordinary existence possible.


____________________________
Author: Eugene H. Peterson
Number of Pages: 208 pages
Published Date: 17 Jul 2008
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780340954898
Download Link: Click Here
____________________________

Tags:

fb2, free ebook, ebook pdf, Read online,download epub, epub download, for PC, Eugene H. Peterson mobi,ebook, kindle, iOS, paperback, download ebook, iPad, rarmobi, book review, download book, iPhone, facebook, download torrent, free pdf, zip,Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading kindle,pocket, download pdf,download torrent Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading by Eugene H. Peterson kindle,for mac, fb2,

http://ngalultidi.blog.free.fr/index.php?post/2017/09/06/FREE-Holding-download-epub