Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals - Softcover

Buehrens, John

 
9780807010532: Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807010537 ISBN 13: 9780807010532
Verlag: Beacon Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

A thoughtful, warm, and witty introduction Understanding the Bible is designed to help empower skeptics, seekers, nonbelievers, and those of a liberal and progressive outlook to reclaim the Bible from literalists. In making accessible some of the best contemporary historical, literary, political, and feminist readings of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, it encourages all who would find in the biblical heritage an ally and not an enemy in the quest for a more just and humane world. Brief and to the point, it can easily be used to stimulate group discussions and personal reading of the biblical texts themselves, and is an excellent introduction to the Judeo-Christian tradition for those of other faiths.

Understanding the Bible includes four preliminary chapters on the why, who, which, and how of biblical understanding, followed by eight brief thematic chapters covering the core of the Hebrew Bible and six covering the Christian scriptures, plus chronologies, maps, and helpful suggestions for further reading.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Buehrens was president of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1993 to 2001 and is now minister of the First Parish in Needham, Massachusetts, and special assistant to the secretary general of the World Conference of Religions for Peace. He is coauthor, with Forrest Church, of A Chosen Faith.

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Verlag
Beacon Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807010537
ISBN 13 
9780807010532
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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