All too often Scripture is read only to find answers to life\'s perplexing questions, to prove a theological point, or to formulate doctrine.
The Bible invites its readers to linger in wide-eyed wonder, Brown says -- and his Sacred Sense shows readers how to do just that..
He explores reading strategies and offers fresh readings of seventeen Old and New Testament passages, identifying what he finds most central and evocative in the unfolding biblical drama.
In this book Brown helps readers develop an orientation toward the biblical text that embraces wonder.
But William Brown argues that if read properly, what the Bible does most fundamentally is arouse a Sacred sense of life-transforming wonder.
All too often Scripture is read only to find answers to life\'s perplexing questions, to prove a theological point, or to formulate doctrine
