Title

The good book : reading the Bible with mind and heart

Description

The Good Book is a brilliant and inspiring look at the Bible today from the preacher to Harvard University, a man Time magazine called one of the seven best preachers in America. "The theme of this book," writes Peter Gomes in his introduction, "is the risk and the joy of the Bible: risk in that we might get it wrong, and joy in the discovery of the living Word becoming flesh. It is around this theme that I formulate three basic questions which the thoughtful reader.brings to the Bible: What is it? How is it used? What does it have to say to me?" With compassion, humor, and insight, Gomes gives us the tools we need to make the Bible a dynamic part of our daily lives - and reminds us that the Bible is not just doctrine and interpretation, but one of the most available and extraordinary means by which we are brought into proximity with the divine.

Identifier

658508

688134475

Creator

Gomes, Peter J

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1996

Program air date: September 21, 1997

Publisher

W. Morrow

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: Hometown--Plymouth, MA, Bates College. OLD TESTAMENT. NEW TESTAMENT-MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, JOHN. Republican/Reagan and Bush Inaugurals p 164. Why do quote Paul Tillich, Plummer Professor of Christian morals. "twicters" Christmas, Easter, High Holy days. Hebrew Scripture, Moses, Paul, Augustine. 66 Books in the Bible. How many different Bibles are there. What's the diff. between Old and New Testament. Jesse Jackson, Pat Buchanan. Holy Wars-- p 55. Is the Bible an American Book? Martin Luther King--. Note on Half Title: p 190-economic success. Lamb has underlined specific words in the chapter titles on the Contents page. Underlinings/Notes: Underlinings: Meaning of apology, make-up of Bible. Who am I? Why am I here? Hebrew Bible--first five books--the Law. Structure of the New Testament. Worship of the Bible. Christians and current culture war; prayer/Bible reading in public schools. Pat Robertson--700 Club. Augustine, City of God. Notes: "Driving no map," "3 questions," "lost quite a few over the years," "poll," "1996 Time cover," "66 separate books," "Bates," "the cross," "Hebrew, Greek, Latin," "Holy Wars," "America is angry," "Southern Baptists," "the Christian cross," "Jews and the death of Jesus," "gay protest in Harvard Yard," "Ron Reagan, Geo Bush inaugural," "came out," "Jews and sex," "middle class," "unhappy," "posh girl's school," "father nonsense," "anxiety," "college ticket to good life," "Catholic, Episcopal, Protestant," "The good life," "Esther," "Peter," "Dictators," "technology economic success," "lies," "false trust," "lonely people," "Lawyers," "Crystal Cathedral, companionship," "short, fat, little black man," "Harvard," "what next year," "Germany," "Tuskegee Inst. lynching," "money," "guilt," "money root of all evil," "Tuskegee," "Miracles," "blacks, women, homosexuals," "Supreme Court forbade reading bible."

Subject

"Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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