The Good Book - Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart

Zusatztext "A riveting tour of this holy book with the guide both witty and wise ... great work of scholarship and imagination." Informationen zum Autor Peter J. Gomes has been minister of Harvard University's Memorial Church since 1974, when he was appointed Pusey Minister of the church, and serves as Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. An American Baptist minister, he was named one of America's top preachers by Time magazine. He is the recipient of thirty-three honorary degrees and an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, the University of Cambridge, England, where the Gomes Lectureship is established in his name. Klappentext "The Bible and the social and moral consequences that derive from its interpretation are all too important to be left in the hands of the pious or the experts, and too significant to be ignored and trivialized by the uninformed and indifferent. Zusammenfassung "The Bible and the social and moral consequences that derive from its interpretation are all too important to be left in the hands of the pious or the experts! and too significant to be ignored and trivialized by the uninformed and indifferent.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter J Gomes, Peter J. Gomes
• Verlag: Harper Collins Usa
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.04.2002
• EAN: 9780060088309
• ISBN: 978-0-06-008830-9
• Seiten: 400
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Religiöse Schriften, Gebete, Gesangbücher, relig. Meditationen; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Religion: general, RELIGION: Biblical Studies / General, RELIGION: Christianity / History, RELIGION: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General, RELIGION: CHRISTIAN MINISTRY, RELIGION: Christian Living / Inspirational, RELIGION: Biblical Commentary / General, RELIGION: Christian Theology / Ethics, RELIGION: Ethics, RELIGION: Faith