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From a UK mission worker in Brazil - Rated
I wish I knew how one person can write so many excellent books, as well as translating the Message... This is the first in a 5-part series, and I have now read the first three (so far, all that's been published)and am now reading this first volume for the 3rd time - it is definitely a book worth digesting thoroughly. Read it first for the poetically beautiful way he writes; secondly to understand the ideas, and at least one more time to be able to explain them to others.
In this book, Peterson's stated aim is to "provide the ...spirituality of our time with structure and coherence by working from a scriptural foundation and with a Trinitarian imagination." That's what I love about it - solid Biblical truth expressed in imaginative ways that help the reader not only to understand deep truths, but to be inspired by them - and to want to live them.
The title comes from a sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins:
"For Christ plays in ten thousand places/Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men's faces".
Peterson says this sums up what he is trying to do - not to give us more information, but to get us more in on the 'play' of living in all we do for the glory of God
The book is divided into 4 parts:
Clearing the Playing Field - where he deals with all the false spiritualities around today, and establishes the basic Christian stories.
Christ Plays in Creation - where he explores the sacred in all creation, including people.
Christ Plays in History - where he explores the real meaning of history, and how to enter history as Christians.
Christ Plays in Community - how to enter into Christ's holy community as full participants.
It is not an easy read, but it is a beautiful and worthwhile read.
truly excellent writing - Rated
how does eugene peterson keep producing such excellent writing? this is really good stuff. touches on so many significant issues and always manages to break through to the heart of these issues. i am a big fan of his work and this doesn't disappoint. every minister, correction - EVERY CHRISTIAN - should have a healthy helping of peterson in their library.
this is the stuff we have been waiting for.. - Rated
just as you thought his work couldn't get any better he rolls out this one. This is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Because he is a poet/ pastor/ academic/ spiritual director/ prayer-er/ theologian he conveys not only his meaning, but the sense of that meaning in what and how he writes. His profound understanding of who God is and how this God deals with us is so vital to the church today - saving us from a God who has been captured and controlled by the church or a God who is diffused and lost in the inert vagueness of anything goes. Buy it, pray it, preach it, give it away, live it.
