Re-enchanting the Text

Re-enchanting the TextIn an age when the Bible has been stripped of its sacredness and functional biblical illiteracy reigns, this book makes the case that we must work to re enchant the text in order to return the Bible to its rightful place in the lives of Christians. Cheryl Bridges Johns explains how the Enlightenment's turn to the rational human subject made it possible to objectify the Bible and has distorted our interpretations of Scripture. This move generated a

Jervis points out that union with Christ has significant temporal implications

This handsome and handy one-volume

This volume captures the message of the book of Acts by taking seriously the book's essential character as a powerful story through which Luke communicates profound theological truth

providing up-to-date

Reno provides a simple explanation of this multifaceted approach

A leading expert in the field of Christian missions encourages the church to recover the apostolic imagination that fueled the multiplication of disciples in the first century

Following the publication of his revised translations in The Apostolic Fathers in English

Philemon by Dennis Hamm

Chapters can be assigned in any order

accessible style for both female ministry leaders and men seeking to promote female leaders

We are actively engaging God in a conversation that can be life changing

He traces the storyline of the scriptures from the standpoint of biblical theology