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The first motivation could be called political: If you can't or won't understand the Bible, others surely will interpret it for you. The second could be called cultural or literary: Within this culture you can't be fully literature or creative, artistically or rhetorically, without an acquaintance with the Bible. But now we come to the third and most personal reason: You also can't be spiritually mature or wise simply by rejecting the Bible as oppressive. The oppressive uses of the Bible are rea
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― Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals
― Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals
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In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become both more human and more humane. We are constantly crafting and recrafting ourselves, and the goal is to do so in such a way that we contribute, even if only incrementally, more to the good in the world than to the bad. We think of the point made by Tim Beal (2011, 184), who notes that the etymological root of the word “religion” is typically taken to be
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― An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination
― An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination
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