Book

How the Bible Actually Works

Peter Enns · 2019

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What this book knows

The Bible is not a rulebook but a wisdom tradition that demands we read our moment, not just our text.

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Work: Absent
Learning: Primary
Religion: Primary

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faith-and-doubt

Reading the situation—not simply the Bible—is what wisdom is all about. It's also what the life of faith is about.
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Our sacred responsibility is to reimagine God in our present moment. The Bible doesn't end that process of reimagination. It promotes it.
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obedience-and-authority

If polar opposite positions can keep claiming the Bible's support, then providing 'clear teaching' might not be what scripture is prepared to do.
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Later biblical writers made adjustments to earlier laws, and both were kept in the Bible.
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education-and-formation

Instead of going through painful intellectual contortions pretending this diversity does not exist, we should ask why there is so much of it.
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Reimagining God yet again for other reasons is the heart and soul of the Christian faith.
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Illuminates

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