The Word: Imagining the Gospel in Modern America
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The Word: Imagining the Gospel in Modern America   -     By: Ann Monroe

The Word: Imagining the Gospel in Modern America

Westminster John Knox Press / 2000 / Hardcover

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Product Description

A book about the stunning variety of ways the Bible is preached, taught, studied, and revered in the United States today. Based on her interviews with biblical scholars (Ched Myers, Walter Wink, Marcus Borg), ministers (Peter Gomes, Jim Forbes, Kay Arthur), and Bible study groups (in Chicago, New York, Colorado Springs, Atlanta), Monroe's book offers a "portrait by lightning flashes" of the Bible in American culture. Monroe's odyssey is motivated by her desire to understand , first, how it can be that all the factions in this diverse group of believers are reading the same book and, second, how we can draw an understanding of what it means to read the Bible from the theological conflicts and coincidences among communities of believers across the denominational spectrum.

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Title: The Word: Imagining the Gospel in Modern America
By: Ann Monroe
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 208
Vendor: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 2000
Dimensions: 8.50 X 5.50 (inches)
Weight: 14 ounces
ISBN: 0664221416
ISBN-13: 9780664221416
Stock No: WW221416

Publisher's Description

Ann Monroe has written a fascinating book about the stunning variety of ways the Bible is preached, taught, studied, and revered in the United States today. Based on interviews with biblical scholars, ministers, and Bible study groups across the country, Monroe's book offers a rich mosaic of the Bible in American culture.

Author Bio

Ann Monroe is a former staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal. She is currently a contributing writer at Mother Jones magazine and a freelance writer for Sojourners and other publications.

Library Journal

Monroe, a journalist specializing in religious topics, visited Christian Bible study classes around the country in churches of various denominationsDconservative and liberal, biblical literalists, and those who interpret the Bible quite freelyDand interviewed both the leaders and the participants in order to understand how the Bible is used today. She also visited a Billy Graham Revival and a convention of the Society for Biblical Literature. Through description and quotation, she gives a taste of each of these approaches to the study of the Bible. Monroe, a veteran of Bible study groups, shows that the Bible continues to play a prominent role in America but in multifaceted ways. In the reading of the Bible, she sees a dialog between what the Bible offers and what the reader brings to it, a place of encounter with God. Monroe brings a reporter's approach, balanced but not uncritical, to her treatment of people gathered to engage in this dialog. Recommended for most libraries.DAugustine J. Curley, Newark Abbey, NJ Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Publisher's Weekly

What do Americans do when they read the Bible? This lucid, observant book by a former Wall Street Journal reporter captures a wide variety of Christians engaging with their inescapable and sometimes inexplicable sacred text. From the rarefied seminars of the Society for Biblical Literature to the carefully rehearsed lectures of conservative Bible teacher Kay Arthur, Monroe clearly has a reporter's knack for finding, and recounting, the telling moment. The result is an impressively drawn and multidimensional portrait of the ways in which American churches are helping (or not helping) their members grapple with Scripture. Monroe documents with painful precision how little the Bible is actually studied, much less understood, in both conservative and liberal camps. Anyone who has attempted to lead a Bible study or who has participated in one will wince at Monroe's alarmingly apt vignettes of discussions gone astray and self-expression masquerading as interpretation. At times the book wobbles unevenly between journalism and theologizing (Monroe is clearly more adept at the former), and it is more limited in scope than the subtitle would suggest--Monroe's account is poorer for not addressing the interpretive traditions of American Judaism, Mormonism or Catholicism. With those caveats, this is an exceptional book and a model of personally engaged reporting. (June) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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