What’s in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause
Overview
Well-known biblical phrases—“in the fullness of time,” “fearfully and wonderfully made,” “in the beauty of holiness,” and others—suggest, evoke, and invite. In this book Marilyn Chandler McEntyre succinctly reflects on more than 50 of these familiar phrases that prompt readers to pray, pause, and pay attention.
Some of these select phrases are devotional, some speculative, some whimsical, some edgy. McEntyre encourages us to see such “words within the Word” as invitations and, in doing so, to discover that they are places of divine encounter, epiphany, and unexpected guidance.
The three sections of the book—“Assurance,” “Invitation,” and “Surprise”—organize the reflections by tone and theme. Rich with eloquence, wisdom, and wonder, these reflections will lead readers to enter the sacred space of Scripture and connect the biblical Word with the ordinary—and extraordinary—lives we’ve been given to live.
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- Reflects on more than 50 familiar biblical phrases
- Encourages readers to find new insights into well-known texts
- Connects the Bible with the ordinary and extraordinary of every-day life
- Assurance
- Invitation and Admonition
- Mystery and Surprise
With her profound summonings, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre recovers for many contemporary readers an ancient practice that is reminiscent of rabbinic attention to the dark sayings of Scripture, those compelling, curious, often challenging passages that would nudge us into seeing more, would have us glimpse the inexhaustibility of the one in whom we live and move and have our being, even the inexhaustibility of his Word.
—Scott Cairns, author, Idiot Psalms
McEntyre has again written with conspicuous grace and truth. She sees deeply into the Christian life. She writes simply and nobly, but with an enormous weight of discernment and suggestion. Some passages here are as powerful and lovely as any I’ve encountered in years.
—Cornelius Plantinga Jr., author, Reading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists
Seamlessly blending exegesis, philology, lectio divina, and prayer, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre teaches us how to listen for the divine word in all times and circumstances.
—Carol Zaleski, coauthor, Prayer: A History
- Title: What’s in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause
- Author: Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Pages: 127
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Phraseology
- ISBNs: 9780802871145, 0802871143
- Resource ID: LLS:WHTSPHRSPSNGYPS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:48:15Z