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Christianity Today 2022 Book Award of Merit (Beautiful Orthodoxy) Many Christians view the Bible as an instruction manual. While the Bible does provide instruction, it can also captivate, comfort, delight, shock, and inspire. In short, it elicits emotion--just like poetry. By learning to read and love poetry, says literature professor Matthew Mullins, readers can increase their understanding of the biblical text and learn to love God's Word more. Each chapter includes exercises and questions designed to help readers put the book's principles and practices into action.

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Contents
Introduction: The Hatred of Poetry and Why It Matters
1. How Reading Literature Became a Quest for Meaning
2. The Bible Is Literature
3. Meaning Is More Than Message
4. Not Anything
5. Reading with Our Guts
6. Delight and Instruction
7. Why We Worship
8. Changing Our Approach
9. How to Read--General Sense
10. How to Read--Central Emotion
11. How to Read--Formal Means
12. A Short Compendium of Forms
Conclusion: Negative Capability and Habituation
Afterword: Reading Aloud
Index

Enjoying the Bible – Literary Approaches to

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      Publisher Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
      Published 1 March 2021
      ISBN-13 9781540961662
      978-1540961662
      ISBN-10 1540961664
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      Religious and ceremonial arts Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Christianity Today 2022 Book Award of Merit (Beautiful Orthodoxy) Many Christians view the Bible as an instruction manual. While the Bible does provide instruction, it can also captivate, comfort, delight, shock, and inspire. In short, it elicits emotion--just like poetry. By learning to read and love poetry, says literature professor Matthew Mullins, readers can increase their understanding of the biblical text and learn to love God's Word more. Each chapter includes exercises and questions designed to help readers put the book's principles and practices into action.

      Table of Contents
      Contents
      Introduction: The Hatred of Poetry and Why It Matters
      1. How Reading Literature Became a Quest for Meaning
      2. The Bible Is Literature
      3. Meaning Is More Than Message
      4. Not Anything
      5. Reading with Our Guts
      6. Delight and Instruction
      7. Why We Worship
      8. Changing Our Approach
      9. How to Read--General Sense
      10. How to Read--Central Emotion
      11. How to Read--Formal Means
      12. A Short Compendium of Forms
      Conclusion: Negative Capability and Habituation
      Afterword: Reading Aloud
      Index

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