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Jul. 7th, 2006 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgGot my Sojourners email this morning, with this graphic in it:
Ho ho? Who are these guys? So I check the whole site.
I've found my mother's "Northern" Baptists, methinks.
"Judson Press is the publishing arm of American Baptist Churches USA, a Protestant denomination that includes 1.5 million members in 5,800 congregations in the United States and Puerto Rico. The denomination's national offices are housed in the American Baptist Mission Center in Valley Forge, Pa."
Not "Northern," but looking through the site, I see a lot of familiar ground. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sunfell, you might want to share this on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dark_christian.)
About the book in question?
In the last few years, books in the Left Behind fiction series, co-authored by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, have taken Christian publishing by storm. Although the books are fictional, they are based on--and promote--a particular understanding of end times events that flow from the authors' theological context and approach to biblical interpretation. Here, Flesher describes and challenges the theological framework, interpretative practices, socio-political ideologies, and the end times scenario that, while prominent in the Left Behind series, are not shared by most biblical scholars. Flesher outlines how to read the Bible and exposes the use and abuse of Scripture to support the peculiar doctrines of "Rapture" and "Tribulation." Demonstrating how theological preconceptions guide the use of Bible texts, she explodes the myth of "literal interpretation" and highlights the importance of understanding history, context and literary genre. Flesher continues with a presentation of alternative readings of Daniel, Revelation, and other key Scriptures. Celebrating these texts as "resistance literature," designed to help Christians keep the faith in a hostile world, Flesher offers practical guidelines for appropriating their message in a post modern world.
Hmm. That's another one I can buy a few copies of for handy distribution. Oh very yes.
(And they have all kinds of things that look pretty tasty, to boot.)
Ho ho? Who are these guys? So I check the whole site.
I've found my mother's "Northern" Baptists, methinks.
"Judson Press is the publishing arm of American Baptist Churches USA, a Protestant denomination that includes 1.5 million members in 5,800 congregations in the United States and Puerto Rico. The denomination's national offices are housed in the American Baptist Mission Center in Valley Forge, Pa."
Not "Northern," but looking through the site, I see a lot of familiar ground. (
sunfell, you might want to share this on dark_christian.)About the book in question?
In the last few years, books in the Left Behind fiction series, co-authored by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, have taken Christian publishing by storm. Although the books are fictional, they are based on--and promote--a particular understanding of end times events that flow from the authors' theological context and approach to biblical interpretation. Here, Flesher describes and challenges the theological framework, interpretative practices, socio-political ideologies, and the end times scenario that, while prominent in the Left Behind series, are not shared by most biblical scholars. Flesher outlines how to read the Bible and exposes the use and abuse of Scripture to support the peculiar doctrines of "Rapture" and "Tribulation." Demonstrating how theological preconceptions guide the use of Bible texts, she explodes the myth of "literal interpretation" and highlights the importance of understanding history, context and literary genre. Flesher continues with a presentation of alternative readings of Daniel, Revelation, and other key Scriptures. Celebrating these texts as "resistance literature," designed to help Christians keep the faith in a hostile world, Flesher offers practical guidelines for appropriating their message in a post modern world.
Hmm. That's another one I can buy a few copies of for handy distribution. Oh very yes.
(And they have all kinds of things that look pretty tasty, to boot.)
