Better Ways to Read the Bible
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Zach Lambert has seen the Bible used countless times as something far from the “Good Book”--both in his own life and in the experiences of others. He has seen the Bible weaponized to subjugate women, justify racism, bash LGBTQ+ people, cover up abuse, and exclude people who speak out against these injustices.
In Better Ways to Read the Bible, Lambert calls readers to a more Christlike interpretation of Scripture. Lambert has created this accessible guide to help readers dismantle four common lenses for reading Scripture that lead to harm--Literalism, Apocalypse, Moralism, and Hierarchy. Instead, he offers four new lenses--Jesus, Context, Flourishing, and Fruitfulness--that promote wholeness, inclusion, and flourishing for all people. This book transforms the Bible from a weapon that condemns, oppresses, and excludes into a tool that helps and heals.
Better Ways to Read the Bible, which includes a foreword by Beth Allison Barr, welcomes all Christians to reengage Scripture in life-giving ways.
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- Calls readers to a more Christlike interpretation of Scripture.
- Helps readers dismantle four common lenses for reading Scripture.
- Transforms the Bible from a weapon that condemns into a tool that helps and heals.
- Title: Better Ways to Read the Bible: Transforming a Weapon of Harm into a Tool of Healing
- Author: Zach W. Lambert
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2025
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781587436680, 158743668X
- Resource ID: LLS:BTTRWYSRDTLHLNG
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-08T21:37:20Z