In the Beginning There Was Darkness: A Blind Person's Conversations With the Bible - Couverture souple

Hull, John M.

 
9780334028215: In the Beginning There Was Darkness: A Blind Person's Conversations With the Bible
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ISBN 10 : 0334028213 ISBN 13 : 9780334028215
Editeur : SCM Press, 2001

Synopsis

Many people have written books about the Bible from feminist and black points of view, but prior to this exceptional book no one has interpreted the Bible from the perspective of blindness. When John Hull went blind he realised that the Bible was written by sighted people. Even Jesus shared in the attitudes of his day towards blindness. In writing the book, Hull ignored the printed text and listened to the Bible on tape. The result is a unique interpretation, which challenges the sighted monopoly yet brings new insights into the Bible for both sighted and blind. Examining some of the best known instances of blindness in the biblical stories, the author brings anecdotes from his own life and experience to bear on thesa. What emerges is that the image of God is stamped upon blindness since only blind people can say that they, like God, are beyond light and darkness. In the Beginning There was Darkness affords new perspectives to all who are unaware that they read the Bible from a sighted point of view and will draw the different worlds of sight and blindness into a deeper mutual understanding. A gripping testament to courage and faith, it makes a powerful contribution to burgeoning interest in theologies of disability and offers one of the most sinking fusions of the biblical and the personal yet to have appeared in print.

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À propos de l?auteur

John M Hull is Professor of Religious Education in the University of Birmingham and President of the National Christian Education Council. His books include On Sight and Insight, Touching the Rock, Utopian Whispers and Hellenistic Magic and the Synoptic Tradition.

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Éditeur
SCM Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0334028213
ISBN 13 
9780334028215
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
188
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
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Allemagne

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781563383687: In the Beginning There Was Darkness: A Blind Person's Conversations With the Bible

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1563383683 ISBN 13 :  9781563383687
Editeur : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2002
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