Disarming Scripture: Cherry-Picking Liberals, Violence-Loving Conservatives, and Why We All Need to Learn to Read the Bible Like Jesus Did

If you have come to a place of being honest with yourself, honest with your God, and are willing to wrestle with some of the difficult parts of the Scriptures and the horrid way these have effected the church in the past, please read this book. Flood has taken something that has proven to be problematic on the surface and shown us another side, a beautiful side to Scriptures.

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A GOD OF LOVE AND GENOCIDE?    For many Christians the problem of violence in Scripture can result in a crisis of faith--especially when we see how such passages have been used throughout history to justify horrific bloodshed in God's name. Moving beyond typical conservative and liberal approaches, which seek to either defend or whitewash over violence in the Bible, Disarming Scripture takes a surprising yet compelling approach: Learning to read the Bible like Jesus did.

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Along the way the book deals with some very big issues, ranging from passages commanding genocide and infanticide in the Old Testament to passages in the New Testament that have been used to justify slavery, child abuse, and state violence. The take-away is an approach to Scripture that not only sees questioning as an acceptable part of a healthy faith, but as an absolutely essential part of it.

This volume is well written and argued, and worth a careful read by Evangelicals. At a time when religiously motivated violence is on the rise, and Christians call on Muslims to rethink passages in the Qur'an and their connections to violence, Evangelicals would do well to consider the plank in their own eye in regards to violence and the biblical tradition. Our assumptions about the nature of the biblical text, as well as how to properly interpret it, can and should be critically revisited. "Disarming Scripture" is an important resource to help with this process.

Details For Disarming Scripture: Cherry-Picking Liberals, Violence-Loving Conservatives, and Why We All Need to Learn to Read the Bible Like Jesus Did

• Paperback: 294 pages ( Download PDF :  )


• ISBN-10: 0692307265


• ISBN-13: 978-0692307267


• Author: Derek Flood


• Publisher: Metanoia Books (December 1, 2014)


• Language: English


• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches

About the Author

Derek Flood is the author of Healing the Gospel: A Radical Vision for Grace, Justice, and the Cross (Cascade, 2012), and is a featured blogger for the Huffington Post, Sojourners, and Red Letter Christians. He holds a masters degree in systematic theology from the Graduate Theological Union.

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