Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
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Christians feed on Scripture. Holy Scripture nurtures the Holy Community as food nurtures the human body. Enormous amounts of energy, intelligence and prayer are spent in learning how to "eat this book" after the manner of Ezekiel in Babylon and John on Patmos. In Eat this Book Peterson counters the widespread practice of taking personal experience as the final authority for spirituality and calls us back to the Christian Scriptures - not as critics or technicians, but as participants.
1"The forbidding discipline of spiritual reading"12The holy family at table with holy scripture153Scripture as text : learning what God reveals234Scripture as form : following the way of Jesus375Scripture as script : playing our part in the spirit596Caveat lector817"Ears thou hast dug for me"908God's secretaries1219The message137AppSome writers on spiritual reading177
