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Eugene Peterson

Quotables: Reversed Thunder

Reversed Thunder:The Revelation of Johnand the Praying Imaginationby Eugene Peterson In order for worshipers to get to the throne it is necessary to get through or past this “sea.” The crystal sea is a baptismal font…The world is comprehensively but not indiscriminately gathered around the throne of God–it is first cleansed in baptism and then presented. The waters of baptism, like the Red Sea and the Jordan River with which they are often identified, are waters through which we pass, Continue Reading…
June 19, 2012
Quotables: Reversed Thunder

Reversed Thunder:The Revelation of Johnand the Praying Imaginationby Eugene Peterson The gospel is never for individuals but always for a people. Sin fragments us, separates us, and sentences us to solitary confinement. Gospel restores us, unites us, and sets us in community. The life of faith revealed and nurtured in the biblical narratives is highly personal but never merely individual: always there is a family, a tribe, a nation–church. {p. 42} “Outside the church there is no salvation” is not Continue Reading…
February 9, 2012
Quotables: Reversed Thunder

Reversed Thunder:The Revelation of Johnand the Praying Imaginationby Eugene Peterson The scriptures are not a textbook on God; they are access to the living word of God that speaks a new world into being in us. {p. 24} Jesus Christ is both the content of the revelation and the agent of the revelation…[…]…The Revelation is nothing if not focused on Jesus Christ. {p. 26-27} [I]t is his will to identify himself in revelation in the community of faith. It is understandable that Continue Reading…
November 3, 2011
Quotables: Reversed Thunder

Reversed Thunder:The Revelation of Johnand the Praying Imaginationby Eugene Peterson [T]here are many people who stubbornly refuse to read it, or {which is just as bad} refuse to read it on its own terms. These are the same people who suppress fairy tales because they are brutal and fill children’s minds with material for nightmares, and who bowdlerize Chaucer because his book is too difficult as it stands. {p. x} [T]he Revelation is a gift–a work of intense imagination… {p. Continue Reading…
October 12, 2011