The Dangerous Book: The Bible As You've Never Seen It - Couverture souple

Ramsay, Jay

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0957072244 ISBN 13 : 9780957072244

Editeur : Fitzrovia Press, 2018

Synopsis

RECLAIMING OUR LOST BIBLE A dramatic, poetic and controversial new version of the Bible is launched in time for Bible Sunday on October 28th, 2018. People often say the Bible is a library. Of histories and stories and laws and poems and wisdom. But it is also an epic Hero s Journey, with God as one of the protagonists. In The Dangerous Book, poet Jay Ramsay takes a journey from Genesis to Revelation, and back to Genesis, bringing to life the drama of how a tribal God became the God of Unconditional Love, and the struggle that process entailed and entails both for us and for God.? A book that lies at the foundation of Western Civilization is not a book we can afford to forget. It shows a movement from an old paradigm to a new one. Although many of the historical events happened thousands of years ago, many elements within in them run parallel to the challenges we face in today s world and in what it means to be human. This book is created in the spirit of the eighth century farm worker poet and novice monk Caedmon who, when asked to sing, turned the Bible spontaneously into Anglo Saxon verse. And of William Langland s Piers Plowman, Milton s Samson Agonistes, Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth, Tennyson, Eliot, in his own way Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. All have sought to play with the Biblical stories to help us understand who we are and where we sit in the Greater Story. And why did we call it The Dangerous Book? Because the Bible is a dangerous book, and what Jay Ramsay has done is dangerous too. The Bible is a Dangerous Book when seized by those who want to define the understanding of God as theirs and theirs only. It is a Dangerous Book when it is used to justify not only casting as beyond God s love those who disagree and used as a reason for persecuting them. It is a Dangerous Book when it is used to justify slavery, suppression of women, homophobia, sexism, supremacy of one race above another and the right to determine who is saved and who is cast out into utter darkness. It is a Dangerous Book when the God who is named is only judge not lover. It is a Dangerous Book when it is ignored by so many because they no longer feel it is theirs. The Dangerous Book is about taking the Bible back from those who use it to exclude.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jay Ramsay is the author of more than 40 books of poetry, non-fiction, and translation. He first collaborated with Martin Palmer in 1991 with their best-selling translation of the Chinese Daoist classic the Tao Te Ching. He is a psychotherapist in private practice, dividing his time between Devon, Stroud and London. Martin Palmer is the author of over 30 books and is a theologian, author, broadcaster, environmentalist, historian of world religions and translator of classical Chinese. He lives near Bath.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fitzrovia Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0957072244
• ISBN 13: 9780957072244
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 560
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• Personne responsable: non disponible