Phillip D. Johnson

Funny Stuff in the Bible (eBook, ePUB)

A Field Trip in the Bible Library

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Funny Stuff in the Bible is a field trip through the Bible library hunting for funny stuff. The many stories and other literature in this library were written over a period of a thousand years. This is well known. Thinking of the Bible as a library provides perspective. Though there are more copies of this library, its writings bound into a single volume, than of any other book in the world, the literature in it is underrated and underenjoyed. It is underenjoyed because of the smog created by the notion that every word is religiously serious and not for enjoyment, let alone laughter. This overlay of morality and religious seriousness makes it difficult to read a particular story as we do other stories in the world. Funny Stuff shakes off these notions to enjoy some stories. The Bible is a large library. We can only explore a little of it as we look both for stuff that makes us laugh and also things that are strange. We investigate what we come across--stumble on, so to speak. The quest is undertaken in good humor and with light hearts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781630870607
• Artikelnr.: 63359130

Autorenporträt

Phillip D. Johnson is editor emeritus of Pietisten, an ecumenical journal that draws inspiration from the heritage of Lutheran, Wesleyan, and Moravian Pietism. He has been a pastor, teacher, president of a motel company, and psychologist. He writes regularly in Pietisten, and is the author of Funny Stuff in the Bible. He received his MDiv degree at Andover-Newton Theological School, his MTh in church history at Luther Seminary, and his MA in counseling at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.