Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers Peterson Eugene Paperback
Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers Peterson Eugene Paperback The fourth volume in Peterson's best-selling "conversations" in spiritual theologyJust as…
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Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers Peterson Eugene Paperback
The fourth volume in Peterson's best-selling "conversations" in spiritual theologyJust as God used words both to create the world and to give us commandments, we too use words for many different purposes. Can our everyday speech, then, be just as important as the words and prayers we hear from the pulpit? In fact, we use the same language to talk to each other and to talk to God.
His was not a direct language of information or instruction but an indirect, oblique language requiring a participating imagination -- "slant" language. Eugene Peterson unequivocally says "Yes "Peterson's Tell It Slant explores how Jesus used language, particularly in his parables and prayers. Tell It Slant beautifully points to Jesus' engaging, relational way of speaking as a model for us