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Title: The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart by Peter J. Gomes ISBN: 0-06-008830-3 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Gomes gives us God's Word for man
Comment: Gomes takes the Bible off its pedestal and presents it to us as a tool for Christian living. This book is a must read for any Christian struggling to read and understand the Bible in modern terms. He explores many of the controversial topics of the Bible, including race, homosexuality, women's roles, anti-Semitism, wealth, and more. He challenges the reader to accept the Bible as an interpretation of fantastic religious events with historical and sociological significance. He teaches the reader to deal with contradictions within the Bible, even within individual books of the Bible. He helps the reader to discern for himself what facts are crucial to an individual's belief in Christianity and what facts enrich the stories of the Bible. This book challenged my beliefs in positive ways and taught me to never "idolize" the Bible again.
Rating: 5
Summary: Insightful, heartfelt, Holy Spirit inspired, compassionate
Comment: As an Episcoplian and a Black woman , I am constantly searching for inspiration and insight into the Bible. The Good Book is indeed an experience. Although I did find it difficult in terms of some Biblical and historical references--it sent me to the dictionary--it also was thought provoking and inspirational for us all to look at the life of Christ and his message of compassion, mercy and love as a way to live our daily lives. It is a strong rebuke to the fundamental Christians who supported enslavement of Black Americans, condemn homosexuals and who feel that woman are inferior. My spiritual life has been enriched by Brother Gomes book-a must read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book for thinking Christians
Comment: I tend to like books whose ratings vacillate between five stars and one. Clearly some readers get it and some don't.
The Bible has been used for centuries as an excuse for slavery, for bigotry, for war, for torture, for anti-Semitism, for homophobia, and for misogyny. It has been used as a crutch for those emotionally immature enough to need to feel right and morally superior. The people who would use the Bible in this way--and they continue to flourish and proliferate--will probably have little use for Gomes's impressive volume, and so be it. For the rest of us, however, The Good Book is worthwhile and enriching. It illuminates the Bible for both the veteran churchgoer and the uninitiated. In teaching Sunday school and Confirmation classes for the Episcopal Church and in delivering funeral and wedding sermons, I have drawn on Gomes's book again and again to help convey the Christian message.
Anyone interested in reading the Bible with "mind and heart" will find The Good Book to be a good read.
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Title: The Good Life : Truths That Last in Times of Need by Peter J. Gomes ISBN: 0060000767 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Strength for the Journey : Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living by Peter J. Gomes ISBN: 0060000775 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sermons: Biblical Wisdom For Daily Living by Peter J. Gomes, Henry L. Gates ISBN: 0060088311 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith by Marcus J. Borg ISBN: 0060526769 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism : A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture by John Shelby Spong ISBN: 0060675187 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 10 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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