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240 pages, Paperback
First published July 31, 2012
There are no shortcuts in the process of removing cultural blinders. If you are thirty years old and Western, then you’ve been developing Western habits of thinking and reading for thirty years. It’s unreasonable to expect to reverse those habits by reading a single book or bearing a few principles in mind. We’re not trying to teach you a new methodology. We’re trying to help you become a certain kind of reader: the kind of reader who is increasingly aware of his or her cultural assumptions. And that takes time, self-reflection and hard work. We’re convinced the reward is worth the hard work. (212)Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes is a very good reminder of what a complex book the Bible is and how easy it is to misinterpret it based on cultural assumptions. There is so much potential for confusion, whether for Christians who accept the Bible as authoritative but unknowingly misunderstand key aspects of it, or for people who believe they are rejecting the Bible but in fact are rejecting wrong cultural interpretations of the Bible, not the actual book itself. Course corrections for all audiences are always valuable, and so this book is very worthwhile.