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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. With warmth and wisdom Peterson offers greatly needed, down-to-earth counsel on spiritual reading. In these pages he draws readers into a fascinating conversation on the nature of language, the ancient practice of lectio divina, and the role of Scripture translations; included here is the “inside story†behind Peterson’s own popular Bible translation, The Message.
Read Online Eat This Book A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading Eugene H Peterson 0884363140043 Books
"I agree with his beginning premise that believers (Christians) should read the Bible far more than they read the rest of religious literature combined.
I also agree that the Bible becomes accessible to everyone if they will simply read it through in a timely manner repeatedly.
Where I disagreed with the author is that he could not leave it at that, instead, he circled back to support the necessity of some level of outside academic helps to really get anything out of reading the Bible.
I think if you can read, and you want to meet God, you will find Him and reading the Bible is the primary way God connects us to faith in His Son Jesus Christ"
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Eat This Book A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading Eugene H Peterson 0884363140043 Books Reviews
- Eugene Peterson is one of my favorite theologians. Like Henri Nouwen, Peterson has an unusual gifting with words. He phrases his thoughts with extraordinary insight. His ability to conceptualize truth is uncommon. And this book is no exception to his literary genius. Chapter four on biblical exegesis alone is worth the price of the book. In fact, it is the best book I've ever read on the nature and importance of exegetical research and lectio divina. This book serves as a reminder of our central task as preachers.
Unlike any other profession in the world, preachers have the privilege to shape people's lives with Scripture. This book teaches us how to be moved and how to move others, how to enter the text ourselves and import the text into others. The unique insights here will drive you to make the study of Scripture your paramount priority for preaching and for personal growth. Like Nouwen's writings, it is the type of book that every sentence must be read and contemplated. I believe there is no higher calling than the call to transform lives through the framing of consonants, vowels, nouns, and verbs of the Bible. I highly recommend this book for every Evangelical preacher. - Eugene Peterson brings the history, purpose, and plan of Scripture to life in "Eat This Book". He transformed my approach to Bible reading through this book. If you want more out of reading the Bible, this book will illuminate the path to the living, active Word that has the power to shape your heart and direct your life. This is for someone who wants to read Scripture for more than just information--it is for those who seeks a deeper, richer relationship with God through His Word. I loved it!
- Eugene Peterson, the author of the Message paraphrase of the Bible is a prolific author. He has also authored several other books, including a 5 volume spiritual theology series. Eat This Book (2006) is the second book in the series. Peterson informs the reader about the importance of how we read the Bible and not just that we read it. Too often, evangelicals come to the Bible with a desire to parse and master the word rather than have the word master them. In the first section, he makes a strong case for the transformative nature of scripture. In the second, he presents the Lectio Divina, a method of sacred reading. Well, to be fair, he is careful not to provide a prescriptive method, but rather talks about what spiritual reading looks like. I particularly benefited from his description of the contemplatio as this has never been entirely clear to me before. In the third section, he addresses how Bibles are translated including his own approach to translating the Message. This section did not flow from the other two, but was interesting nonetheless. I think this is a beneficial read for those wanting to grow in godliness through interacting with the word.
- I agree with his beginning premise that believers (Christians) should read the Bible far more than they read the rest of religious literature combined.
I also agree that the Bible becomes accessible to everyone if they will simply read it through in a timely manner repeatedly.
Where I disagreed with the author is that he could not leave it at that, instead, he circled back to support the necessity of some level of outside academic helps to really get anything out of reading the Bible.
I think if you can read, and you want to meet God, you will find Him and reading the Bible is the primary way God connects us to faith in His Son Jesus Christ - I love this book. It is vintage Peterson. In simple but compelling language, he informs and educates the reader on both how and why we should read the Bible seriously. I was gratified to see that he was really telling us how to meditate and internalize the power that lies in the words of "God's WQord."
- Eat This Book A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading by Eugene H. Peterson.
Chapters one through seven will be helpful for most Christians. In them, Peterson endeavors to make reading the Bible personal, relational, and transformational. Instead of someone being lord of the text, examining it as if in a laboratory, one is to submit their life to the transforming, power-filled, recreating, inspirational thoughts of Scripture. We should not use Scripture to string together positions that support our dogma or encourage a consumer attitude that allows us to be our own gods. We, instead, should approach Scripture to find out what God is saying to us and how we can live within his world; we are to enter and live the Story via the aid of Scripture. Peterson does not want us to read the Bible literally but seriously, in the language of Tyndale's `plowboy'--everyday language that helps us relate to, understand, enter into and live within God's currently unfolding story.
This isn't a book written by someone growing in the "art of spiritual reading", nor penned by a person who knows the topic in theory but not reality. Peterson has lived his topic for decades and again displays his typical ability to write theologically wide and deep thoughts that are digestible and real. Uniquely and contrastingly, he is in all rights both a biblical scholar and linguist but also a pastor, discipler, and champion of the devotional live.
Chapters eight and nine expose the setting, motives, worldview, and rational behind Peterson's Message. I've read too much of Peterson to think that he is advocating a reader responsive method of hermeneutics; nonetheless, in translation work he is ever seeking for fresh insight that illuminates and amplifies the original. Quoting Bediako, Peterson is not tied to the history of translation but rather sees translation work as `a moment of growth of the original [text], which will complete itself in enlarging itself" (173). I don't agree. He recognizes the value of other translations (176), but for him, `the only way that style and tone could be conveyed to the people among whom [he] lived was through paraphrase'. [175] One senses that with regards to Peterson perspective of reading and translating the Bible, his pendulum has swung from an original dogmatic, legalistic KJV Scofield only stance [174] to where he is today. That said,
* The Message is worth reading, provided it is read like one would listen to a sermon--elaborated thoughts from an original text by a flawed person attempting to stand between two worlds--the world of the Bible and the world of his listeners.
* Eat this Book is worth reading, as it contemporizes the long held practice of Lectio Divina.
