Re-Enchanting the Text: Discovering the Bible as Sacred, Dangerous, and Mysterious

By Cheryl Bridges Johns

Book Overview

In an age when the Bible has been stripped of its sacredness and functional biblical illiteracy reigns, this book makes the case that we must work to re-enchant the text in order to return the Bible to its rightful place in the lives of Christians. The author shows how the Enlightenment misshapes our interpretations of the Bible and explains that both "liberal" and "fundamentalist" interpretation are failed forms of disenchanted readings. We must rediscover the Bible as sacred, dangerous, and mysterious to counteract biblical illiteracy in an increasingly post-Christian landscape.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1540965139
• ISBN13: 9781540965134
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"