Disarming Scripture by Derek Flood
I'd like to be able to buy this book in Vyrso:
Disarming Scripture: Cherry-Picking Liberals, Violence-Loving Conservatives, and Why We All Need to Learn to Read the Bible Like Jesus Did by Derek Flood (Metanoia Books, 2014)
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Thanks for the suggestion Rosie! I'll have our publisher relations team look into the publisher.
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I just googled top see if this was in Logos and found this post. I'd also like to read this in Logos or Vyrso.
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It's quite a provocative title. I'd be interested in it just to see if he names all those "violence-loving conservatives" and how one would identify them. For example, does he believe that conservatives are happy that Samuel executed Agag or that Achan's household was rubbed out? Or, just that we believe it actually happened?
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Robert M. Warren said:
I'd be interested in it just to see if he names all those "violence-loving conservatives" and how one would identify them.
Finger pointing doesn't seem to be the point of the book.
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alabama24 said:
Finger pointing doesn't seem to be the point of the book.
Good to know.
The title appears to be making a stereotype that can't be demonstrated in reality. Words have meaning.
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Robert M. Warren said:alabama24 said:
Finger pointing doesn't seem to be the point of the book.
Good to know.
The title appears to be making a stereotype that can't be demonstrated in reality. Words have meaning.
Often authors don't get much choice about the titles and are placed under pressure by publishers who want to make things sound controversial. The "Disarming Scripture" title, rather than the sub-title appears to better describe the book. It has a great recommendation on Amazon from Walter Brueggemann:
"A perceptive and honest book about the vexed question of violence in the Bible, taking with great seriousness the dynamism of the biblical tradition and the interpretive process. A fine contribution to our common work."
--Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary, author of The Prophetic ImaginationI am thus hoping that it doesn't stereotype and focuses instead upon some of the most difficult passages in the bible, particularly those on genocide.
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