Resonance: Biblical Texts Speaking to 21st-Century Inquirers - Softcover

Cook, Harry T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1598150294 ISBN 13: 9781598150292

Publisher: Polebridge Pr Westar Inst, 2011

Synopsis

Using fresh translations and paraphrases to wrest some measure of relevance and contemporaneity from twenty-four important biblical passages, Harry Cook addresses two important questions: How did ordinary people of first-century CE Palestine read or, better yet, hear these important passages, and how can twenty-first-century English speakers in the western world best appropriate them for instruction, inspiration and understanding?

About this title

About the Author:

Harry T. Cook is a retired Episcopal priest whose primary area of research includes first century CE biblical texts and Christian origins. He is a graduate of Albion College and Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University. He is the author of Christianity Beyond Creeds (1997), Sermons of a Devoted Heretic (1999), Seven Sayings of Jesus (2003), Findings: Lectionary Research & Analysis (2003) and Asking: Inquirers in Conversation (2010).

Review:

This book is both delightful and provocative, readable and penetrating. . . . I loved it --The Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong, author of Eternal Life

This book is for ministers and lay people who want to meet the Bible again for the first time, gaining penetrating insights into the weekly lessons plus fresh and arresting ways of applying biblical truth to our lives. Harry Cook is that rare scholar who would be an adornment to any seminary faculty yet brings years of front-line pastoral experience to his analysis of the text and its modern application --The Reverend Fred Fenton, Concord CA

You are about to begin a journey with a gifted teacher and a very good writer. --Josephine Kelsey, former president, the College of Creative Studies, Detroit

About this edition

• Publisher: Polebridge Pr Westar Inst
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1598150294
• ISBN 13: 9781598150292
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126