Jennifer Butler's Who Stole My Bible? Reclaiming Scripture as a Handbook for Resisting Tyranny offers readers a primer on so many of the biblical themes that resonate with "progressive" Christianity.
Let's be honest: So many progressives are scared of Scripture as a source and resource for faith. It's been coopted by churches and traditions that would have us believe so many of those themes are opposite to the biblical text.
Butler will convince you otherwise.
The biblical text is part of a shared heritage and the text inhabits the lives of those who have gone before us. In a way that opens the text up to the diversity of modern American church life.
Butler has no intention of laying out a comprehensive interpretation on the entirety of the Bible. But she selects nine biblical texts that issue in quite essential themes. Creation, Exodus, the Golden Calf, Israel's desire for a king, Solomon's complex legacy, women in the Gospels, Pilate's post-truth fascism, Romans 13 and the Revelation -- all of them when woven together present a clear biblical picture of resisting tyranny.
That makes Who Stole My Bible? essential reading.
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