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Reading Scripture with the Saints . Foreword by Stephen E. Fowl. Eugene, or : Wipf and Stock; Cascade Books, 2014. Pp. xxvi + 263. Pb. $34. Clift Black’s Reading Scripture with the Saints is more invitation than argument. As the title of the book suggests, Black invites his readers to read with “the saints.” The list of saints proves to be rather unconventional, but there are reasons for that. Black makes a case for expanding our reading companions by demonstrating what wonderful readers of scripture these “saints” are and by suggesting that we, the modern reader, can learn from these saints how to better read scripture. Black clearly feels that the we modern readers, especially we academic readers, have impoverished our reading in several ways. We tend to limit our conversation partners to people who share our methods and worldviews. Our conversations thereby become sterile and repetitive. We are too impressed with our reading methods and we have confined our methods, or at least the ones we use in public, too narrowly. But the real problem is theological. Black calls for a renewal of theological readings of scripture. This is not, however, a call to return to using
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Published: Apr 14, 2015
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