Traveling Light: Galatians and the Free Life in Christ, Expanded ed.

by Eugene H. Peterson

Publisher:

IVP

, 1982

Overview

We aspire to freedom but often resign ourselves to an existence trapped in uneasiness and dread. Is there any way to shed such heaviness and reignite hope for deliverance?

In Traveling Light, Eugene H. Peterson urges us to listen to an expert on freedom, Paul, whose letter to the Galatians reminds us of the realities of life in Christ, freely given to all. Peterson says, “If there is a story of freedom to be told, the story must begin with God. . . . The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but the record of the proclaimed and witnessed God bringing new life to the dead. Everywhere it is a story of resurrection—life where we expect death.”

That lightness of spirit we’re shown in Scripture is a gift and challenge. With an open path forward, Peterson calls us to embrace change, exploration, trust, love, and much more. Now with a new study guide, share the work of pursuing real rescue and relief through the abiding wisdom of Peterson.

Contents

• Free for All
• Free to Live
• Free to Curse
• Free to Change
• Free to Resist
• Free to Explore
• Free to Think
• Free to Fail
• Free to Receive
• Free to Trust
• Free to Stand
• Free to Love
• Free to Create
• Free to Give
• Free to Die
• Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Praise for the Print Edition

Christian theology lived is indeed, as Peterson says, ‘a dancing, leaping, daring life.’ These pages will show you the way.

—Karen Swallow Prior, research professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and author of On Reading Well

Eugene Peterson wrote Traveling Light amid a time of cultural upheaval. This was his Scripture-saturated response to his profound concern for how Christians were growing distrustful of their neighbors, taking on tribal identities, withdrawing from the world’s pain, and holding more loyalty to some vision of America than to the kingdom of God. Eugene believed we were consumed by a constricting, heart-gripping fear—and that we were desperate for a fresh encounter with God’s liberating freedom. Apparently, Eugene was also writing for us, right now.

—Winn Collier, author of A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson

Like a skilled eye doctor, Eugene Peterson turns the lens that clears our vision and enables us to discriminate between reality and fantasy, to see what satisfies and what leads to bondage.

—Rebecca Manley Pippert, author of Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World

Product Details

• Title: Traveling Light: Galatians and the Free Life in Christ
• Author: Eugene H. Peterson
• Edition: Expanded Edition
• Publisher: IVP
• Print Publication Date: 1982
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 209
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. Galatians › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Liberty › Religious aspects--Christianity
• ISBNs: 9781514008225, 9781514008201, 151400822X, 1514008203
• Resource ID: LLS:TRVLNGLGHTCHRST
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-07-18T14:13:46Z

About Eugene H. Peterson

Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) was a pastor, scholar, author, and poet. He wrote more than thirty books, including his widely acclaimed paraphrase of the Bible, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, his memoir, The Pastor, and numerous works of biblical spiritual formation, including Run with the Horses, also available in a commemorative edition. Peterson was founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland, where he served for twenty-nine years before retiring in 1991. With degrees from Seattle Pacific, New York Theological Seminary, and Johns Hopkins University, he served as professor of spiritual theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, until retiring in Lakeside, Montana, in 2006.