Book: Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
Another Eugene H. Peterson – this one called out to me from the "new book" shelf in the library, and having already worked through a couple of his books, I thought this one would also be useful. Indeed it was.
Peterson spends one chapter late in the book talking about his experiences translating the Bible into the paraphrase – The Message, but the heart of the book is about how to read the Bible.
Spiritual Reading goes beyond – but doesn’t replace – the usual disciplines of reading, studying commentaries, understanding the original language. The bible becomes a book that the reader surrounds themself in, and ultimately lives. The principles of Lectio Divina are discussed at some length.
Worth a read to help broaden your horizons as to what’s possible in Bible reading.
Lectio is both one of my norms of reading scripture now and also one of the ways my faith community does our ministry of the word time. I love it.