Enjoying the Bible - Literary Approaches to Loving the Scriptures

Matthew Mullins (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2021
Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-1-5409-6166-2 (ISBN)

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A literature professor shows how learning to read and love poetry can increase our understanding of the biblical text, helping us learn to read and love God's Word.

Christianity Today 2022 Book Award of Merit (Beautiful Orthodoxy)

Many Christians view the Bible as an instruction manual. While the Bible does provide instruction, it can also captivate, comfort, delight, shock, and inspire. In short, it elicits emotion--just like poetry. By learning to read and love poetry, says literature professor Matthew Mullins, readers can increase their understanding of the biblical text and learn to love God's Word more. Each chapter includes exercises and questions designed to help readers put the book's principles and practices into action.

Matthew Mullins (PhD, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) is associate professor of English and history of ideas at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He is the author of Postmodernism in Pieces and has written for Los Angeles Review of Books and American Book Review.

Contents
Introduction: The Hatred of Poetry and Why It Matters
1. How Reading Literature Became a Quest for Meaning
2. The Bible Is Literature
3. Meaning Is More Than Message
4. Not Anything
5. Reading with Our Guts
6. Delight and Instruction
7. Why We Worship
8. Changing Our Approach
9. How to Read--General Sense
10. How to Read--Central Emotion
11. How to Read--Formal Means
12. A Short Compendium of Forms
Conclusion: Negative Capability and Habituation
Afterword: Reading Aloud
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Verlagsort	Ada, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 214 mm
Gewicht	276 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5409-6166-4 / 1540961664
ISBN-13	978-1-5409-6166-2 / 9781540961662
Zustand	Neuware