The Good Book: Reading the Bible With Mind and Heart

by Peter J Gomes

Hardcover, 1996

Status

Available

Call number

Interpreting the Bible Gom

Genres

Religion & Spirituality

Nonfiction

General Nonfiction

All Topics

Collection

Your library

Publication

William Morrow (1996), Edition: 1st, 400 pages

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.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member LTW

Peter Gomes, pastor of Harvard University's Memorial Church and a professor of theology, has written a vivid, common sense and wise analysis of what the Bible means for us today. As an African American gay man, Gomes is interested in re-viewing the biblical passages on sexuality and race, but The

Good Book is much more than a revisionist look at controversial biblical passages. Gomes is interested in rediscovering how the Bible can find a place in our emotional and political lives, as well as in our religious beliefs

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LibraryThing member wordygirl39

Gomes makes the Bible beautiful again and steals it back from the right-wing nut jobs, putting a powerful, progressive spin on the powerful words of the ancient Jews and Christians.

LibraryThing member StephenSprinkle

For a responsible and accessible book on the Bible that teaches biblical respect for LGBTQ people, see this book, especially Chapter 8

LibraryThing member Elizabeth80

I did not finish this book -- I did not read all of it because I became somewhat bored. It was written about 20+ years ago and my questions are generally beyond what he is writing. Yes, there are some good ideas but he is maintaining the established church hierarchy with all that entails, and I am

uncertain that it is a viable stand to take. After reading Armstrong, Spong, Crossan, Borg, Pagels, Levine, and others, Peter Gomes is somewhat tame.

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