Over 150 metaphors are examined in an effort to reveal the insights of the scriptures to the skeptic as well as the conventional Christian. The volume includes an index to Hebrew and Greek words, an index of Bible citations and a pronunciation guide for transliterated Hebrew and Greek words.
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James Rowe Adams is past president of The Center for Progressive Christianity and a member of both the Honorary Advisory Council for the Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity and the Advisory Panel for the Faith Futures Foundation, which has offices in the U.S. and Australia. Adams retired from parish ministry in 1996 after serving for nearly thirty years as rector of St. Mark's Church on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Prior to St. Mark's, he served at St. Christopher's Church in Lanham, Maryland -- first as vicar and later as rector. His first post was curate at St. John's Church, Georgetown, in Washington, D.C. He is the author also of So You Think You're Not Religious? A Thinking Person's Guide to the Church (Cowley, 1989) and of So You Can't Stand Evangelism? A Thinking Person's Guide to Church Growth (Cowley, 1994), as well as several earlier publications.
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