The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom

by Andrew Peterson

Publisher:

B&H

, 2021

Overview

There’s a strong biblical connection between people and trees. They both come from dirt. They’re both told to bear fruit. In fact, arboreal language is so often applied to humans that it’s easy to miss, whether we're talking about family trees, passing along our seed, cutting someone off like a branch, being rooted to a place, or bearing the fruit of the Spirit. It’s hard to deny that trees mean something, theologically speaking.

This book is in many ways a memoir, but it’s also an attempt to wake up the reader to the glory of God shining through his creation.

One of the first commands to Adam and Eve was to “work and keep” the garden. Award-winning author and songwriter Andrew Peterson, being as honest as possible, shares a story of childhood, grief, redemption, and peace, by walking through a forest of memories: “I trust that by telling my story, you’ll encounter yours. Hopefully, like me, you’ll see that the God of the Garden is and has always been present, working and keeping what he loves.”

Sometimes he plants, sometimes he prunes, but in his goodness he intends to reap a harvest of righteousness.

Contents

• Chapter I Welcome to the Chapter House
• Chapter II Two Maples, a Dogwood, and the Thinking Tree
• Chapter III Southern Ents
• Chapter IV Family Trees
• Chapter V Digging In
• Chapter VI The Comforter Hath Found Me Here
• Chapter VII The Enchanted Grove
• Chapter VIII We Shall Be Led in Peace
• Chapter IX Footpaths
• Chapter X The Weeper in the Trees
• Chapter XI Places and No-Places
• Chapter XII A Stone's Throw from Jerusalem
• Epilogue
• Afterword

Product Details

• Title: The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom
• Author: Andrew Peterson
• Publisher: B&H
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Christian life; Praise of God; Worship
• ISBNs: 9781087736969, 108773696X
• Resource ID: LLS:GDGRDNCLTRKNGDM
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-01-17T21:12:41Z

About Andrew Peterson

Andrew Peterson is a recording artist, songwriter, producer, filmmaker, publisher and award-winning author of The Wingfeather Saga. He is also founder and president of The Rabbit Room, which has published thirty books to date and fosters community and spiritual formation through music, story and art. Recently launching the film and TV production company, Shining Isle Productions, to produce an animated film based on his bestselling books, his The Warden and the Wolf King (2014) won Children’s Book of the Year in 2015 from WORLD Magazine.