Expanding Scriptures: Lost and Found
The Wisdom Series Book 2
Erschienen am 25. Februar 2022
120 Seiten
978-1-78904-867-4 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Expanding Scriptures: Lost and Found is the second book in the Wisdom Series. Don MacGregor considers what could be added to the Bible from rediscoveries of recent years, supports a new role for Mary Magdalene and looks at how it can all be reframed within the Perennial Wisdom teachings.
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Don MacGregor is an author, retired Anglican Priest, former science teacher and university chaplain. He has embarked on a series of books which seek to expand the theological framework of Christianity into the Perennial Wisdom cosmology, thus making it a more universal spirituality. Don is passionate about finding a new way forward for Christianity which incorporates twenty-first century science and worldviews. He lives in St Davids, UK.
Inhalt
- Intro
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Bible and How It Came About
- Why Just the Bible?
- The Book of Books
- How did we arrive at the New Testament?
- An Evolution in Understanding
- Biblical Criticism
- Best and Worst
- The First Bible and Ecological Awareness
- The Written Word
- Summary
- Questions for Reflection
- Further Study Resources
- Chapter 2 The Lost Christianities and the Gospel of Thomas
- A Tale of Intrigue
- Lost Christianities
- The Gospel of Thomas
- Saying One
- Saying Two
- Saying Three
- Saying Four
- Transformation Not Transaction
- Summary
- Questions for Reflection
- Further Study Resources
- Chapter 3 The Lost Christianities and Mary Magdalene
- Mary Magdalene
- Mary the True Disciple
- Jesus' Companion?
- What Happened to Mary Magdalene?
- In Conclusion
- Questions for Reflection
- Further Study Resources
- Chapter 4 The Hard Problem of Interpretation
- The Problem
- A Different Culture
- Losing Literalism
- Some Interesting Facts
- Acrostic Psalms
- YHWH
- The Nativity Stories
- Creation Stories and Science
- Summary
- Questions for Reflection
- Further Study Resources
- Chapter 5 Reinterpretations
- Re-Languaging Spirit and Spirituality
- The Liturgy Problem
- A New Language
- The Message of Jesus
- A New Way
- Saved or Healed?
- The Woman of Ill-Repute
- The Jesus Way
- Summary
- Questions for Reflection
- Further Study Resources
- Chapter 6 Why Numbers Matter
- Threes
- One
- Three
- Four
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Twelve
- Forty
- Something Fishy
- Summary
- Questions for Reflection
- Further Study Resources
- Epilogue and Explanation
- Author Biography
- Previous Titles
- Note to Reader
- Appendix: The Old Testament in a nutshell
