Eat This Book

A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading

By: Eugene H. Peterson

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Paperback | 1 September 2009

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Eat This Book challenges us to read the Scriptures on their own terms, as God’s revelation, and to live them as we read them. With warmth and wisdom Peterson offers greatly needed, down-to-earth counsel on spiritual reading. In these pages he draws readers into a fascinating conversation on the nature of language, the ancient practice of lectio divina, and the role of Scripture translations; included here is the “inside story” behind Peterson’s own popular Bible translation, The Message.

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Christianity Today, Award of Merit, Spirituality (2007)

Lauren F. Winner
-- author of Girl Meets God and Real Sex
"Deep, stirring, luminous, even profound -- if you are going to read one book about reading Scripture, it should be this one."

Gerald Sittser
-- author of A Grace Disguised
"Eugene Peterson has written a magnificent book about how to read the Bible. As any editor would say, a book must 'show, ' not just 'tell.' Peterson's book does exactly that. The book itself has a biblical quality to it. Peterson uses vivid language; he tells and then reflects on wonderful stories; he invites readers to read their own stories in light of the story. This book is the fruit of decades of reading, pondering, conversing about, praying over, and living this story. Peterson encourages us to read the Bible as if we were dogs gnawing on a bone. Eat This Book made me lick my chops."

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"Peterson explores the ancient discipline of lectio divina and how its elements of reading, meditating, praying, and living can help us receive Scripture as 'formative for the way we live our lives, not merely making an impression on our minds or feelings. ' . . . Recommended."

Publishers Weekly
"Peterson's exposition of lectio divina is one of the fullest to appear in recent years. . . A worthy sequel to his 2004 hit Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places."

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Christianity Biblical Studies & Exegesis Biblical Exegesis & Hermeneutics Christian Life & Practice Language & Linguistics Linguistics Translation & Interpretation Christian Spirituality & Religious Experience

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. x
"The Forbidding Discipline of Spiritual Reading"	p. 1
Eat This Book	p. 13
The Holy Family at Table with Holy Scripture	p. 15
Scripture As Text: Learning what God Reveals	p. 23
The Revealing and Revealed God	p. 24
The Holy Trinity: Keeping It Personal	p. 25
Depersonalizing the Text	p. 28
The Replacement Trinity	p. 31
Hoshia	p. 35
Scripture As Form: Following the Way of Jesus	p. 37
The Story	p. 40
The Sentence	p. 49
Scripture As Script: Playing Our Part in the Spirit	p. 59
The Uncongenial Bible	p. 63
The Immense World of the Bible	p. 67
Obedience	p. 69
Reading Scripture Liturgically	p. 72
Virtuoso Spirituality	p. 76
Lectio Divina	p. 79
Caveat Lector	p. 81
"Ears Thou Hast Dug for Me"	p. 90
Lectio	p. 92
Meditation	p. 98
Oratio	p. 103
Contemplatio	p. 109
The Company of Translators	p. 119
God's Secretaries	p. 121
Translation into Aramaic	p. 122
Translation into Greek	p. 126
Translation into American	p. 130
The Message	p. 137
Oxyrhynchus and Ugarit	p. 141
Lost in Translation	p. 167
Appendix: Some Writers on Spiritual Reading	p. 177
Index of Subjects and Names	p. 181
Index of Scripture References	p. 185
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