Biblical Cosmos
A Pilgrim's Guide to the Weird and Wonderful World of the Bible
Published on 30. April 2015
242 pages
978-0-7188-4395-3 (ISBN)
Description
Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the Bible.When we read Scripture we often imagine that the world inhabited by the Bible's characters was much the same as our own. We would be wrong. The biblical world is an ancient world with a flat earth that stands at the center of the cosmos, and with a vast ocean in the sky, chaos dragons, mystical mountains, demonic deserts, an underground zone for the dead, stars that are sentient beings, and, if you travel upwards and through the doors in the solid dome of the sky, God's heaven--the heart of the universe.This book takes readers on a guided tour of the biblical cosmos with the goal of opening up the Bible in its ancient world. It then goes further and seeks to show how this very ancient biblical way of seeing the world is still revelatory and can speak God's word afresh into our own modern worlds.
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Content
- Front cover
- Half title
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Welcome to the Biblical Cosmos
- Part I: A Tour of the Biblical Earth
- 1. Joining the Flat Earth Society: The Big Picture
- 2. Here Be Dragons! The Sea
- 3. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Land
- 4. A Land Down Under: Sheol/Hades
- Part II: A Tour of the Biblical Heavens
- 5. Eyes in Their Stars: The Sky
- 6. Brighter than a Thousand Suns: God's Heaven
- Part III: The House of God: Temple and Cosmos
- 7. God's in the House: The Temple and the Biblical Cosmos
- 8. Christ's in the House: Jesus and the Biblical Cosmos
- Part IV: Can We Inhabit the Biblical Cosmos?
- 9. How Can We Inhabit the Biblical Cosmos Today?
- 10. The Cosmic Temple Today
- 11. The Biblical Heavens Today
- 12. The Biblical Earth Today
- Bibliography
- Back cover
