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How to Read the Bible in Changing Times Understanding and Applying God's Word Today

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ISBN-10: 0801072832

ISBN-13: 9780801072833

Edition: 2011

Authors: Mark L. Strauss

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Many find it difficult to take words that were written thousands of years ago and apply them to twenty-first-century life in the Western world. How do we read God's unchanging Word in a world that is increasingly defined by change?How to Read the Bible in Changing Times shows everyday Christians how to interpret and apply the Scriptures regardless of time and culture. Rather than seeing the Bible as a magic answer book, a list of commands to obey, or a series of promises to claim, this insightful book allows the Bible to retain its identity as a complex, inspired document while showing that the truth it contains is relevant and life-changing. It shows the reader how todetermine the meaning…    
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Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Baker Books
Publication date: 8/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Mark Strauss (PhD, Aberdeen) is professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary in San Diego. He has written The Davidic Messiah in Luke-Acts, Distorting Scripture?, The Challenge of Bible Translation and Gender Accuracy ,nbsp; The Gospels and Jesus; Four Portraits, One Jesus; Luke in the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Background Commentary series. Mark in the revised Expositor's Bible Commentary series, and Mark in the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary series.

Preface
Introduction: The Unchanging Word in a Changing World
What the Bible Is Not
What the Bible Is
A Heart-of-God Hermeneutic: Walking with God in His Story
Seeking the Heart of God in Dialogue: Tradition, Community, and the Spirit
Finding the Heart of God in the Diverse Genres of the Old Testament
Finding the Heart of God in the Diverse Genres of the New Testament
When Cultures Collide: Discerning the Heart of God in Cultural Context
Conclusion
Notes
Scripture Index