Eat This Book Study Guide
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"The second part of Peterson's momentous five-volume 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. With warmth and wisdom Peterson offers greatly needed, down-to-earth counsel on spiritual reading through a fascinating conversation on the nature of language, the ancient practice of lectio divina, and the role of Scripture translations. What better way to continue that conversation than through an intensive study with other readers? This helpful study guide is designed to enable small groups in schools or churches -- or even individuals -- to delve deeper into the timely wisdom of Eat This Book. Peterson's discussion is here broken up into nine 'sessions, ' each of which contains a summary, quotations to consider, questions for interaction, and a suggested activity, ending with a suggestion for prayer."--Publisher description.
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This is a very good book. The first section deals with how we should be reading scripture. The second section deals with how scripture should be translated culturally (not just the words, but also in how we speak of scripture to others). He uses his work on the Message Bible as an illustration of how he really thinks about this. I highly recommend this book. This one was the most readable of the three books in this series that I have read so far.
Series
5 primary booksSpiritual Theology is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 1999 with contributions by Eugene H. Peterson and Peter Santucci.
