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Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart »

Authors: Peter J. Gomes
ISBN-13: 9780060088309, ISBN-10: 0060088303
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: May 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Peter J. Gomes

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.

Book Synopsis

p>Why is the Bible so often used as a tool for division and exclusion? And why are so many intelligent and compassionate people embarrassed to say they find wisdom and comfort in the Bible? In this groundbreaking book, the man Time magazine called one of the seven best preachers in America provides answers to these questions and shows what

Henry Louis Gates

A riveting tour of this holy book with the guide both witty and wise ... great work of scholarship and imagination.

	Apologia
Ch. 1	What's It All About?	3
Ch. 2	A Matter of Interpretation	25
Ch. 3	The Bible in America	53
Ch. 4	Hard Texts and Changing Times	69
Ch. 5	The Bible and Race: The Moral Imagination	84
Ch. 6	The Bible and Anti-Semitism: Christianity's Original Sin	102
Ch. 7	The Bible and Women: The Conflicts of Inclusion	120
Ch. 8	The Bible and Homosexuality: The Last Prejudice	144
Ch. 9	The Bible and the Good Life	175
Ch. 10	The Bible and Suffering	211
Ch. 11	The Bible and Joy	231
Ch. 12	The Bible and Evil	246
Ch. 13	The Bible and Temptation	266
Ch. 14	The Bible and Wealth	285
Ch. 15	The Bible and Science	312
Ch. 16	The Bible and Mystery	327
	Afterword	348
	Notes	354
	Index	377