The Bible (ePub)
'Aching with beauty' Alec Ryrie
'Stunning prose and relentless insight' Willie James Jennings
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'A stupendous intellectual achievement' Andrew Pettegree
'Aching with beauty' Alec Ryrie
'Stunning prose and relentless insight' Willie James Jennings
'Deserves to find the widest possible audience' Philip Jenkings
The remarkable story of the most influential book in human history.
The Bible is the world's best-known text. Yet, it is a book that never was - its original form does not exist and likely never did. What we have is the inheritance of generation after generation of Christians who have sought to hear God speak. Available in over 3,000 languages and taking innumerable forms, each version is a revelation, evolving as a reflection of its own culture and moment.
Bruce Gordon traces the Bible's astounding journey from its emergence as a codex in the second century, to the Reformation of the Middle Ages, to the spectacular growth of Christianity in the Global South today. It has been a tool for violence and oppression, weaponised in the name of colonialism, and it has expressed hopes for freedom in the struggle for liberation. Found in desert monasteries and Chinese house churches, in Byzantine cathedrals and Guatemalan villages, it has been a book in motion from its very beginnings, a product of more than two thousand years of wandering, restlessness and change.
Breathtakingly global in scope, The Bible is a sweeping history of this sacred book told through the stories of its diverse human encounters in search of the divine - revealing not a static text but a living, dynamic cultural force.
- Autor: Bruce Gordon
- 2024, Englisch
- Verlag: John Murray Press
- ISBN-10: 1529383471
- ISBN-13: 9781529383478
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.09.2024
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