After Chapters & Verses: Engaging the Bible in the Coming Generations
Smith, Christopher R.
ISBN 10: 1606570447 ISBN 13: 9781606570449
Published by Biblica, 2010
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"Only 16 percent of Christians polled said they read the Bible daily."
- Gallup Poll 10/20/2000
Something must be done to bring a stop to the steep decline in people who read and engage in God s Word. Only through reading and understanding the Bible for what it really is, one big narrative, can this alarming trend be reversed.
After Chapters and Verses traces the history of the features that were added to the Bible, such as chapter and verse numbers, section headings, and study notes. It shows how these features make it more difficult, and actually get in the way of us understanding the Scriptures, and explains how International Bible Society (now Biblica) designed a new format to remove all these reading and comprehension roadblocks.
After Chapters and Verses also looks to the future, showing how we can read, study, preach, and teach the Bible more meaningfully and effectively by engaging its books and letters the way their authors purposefully intended.
From the Author: This book captures the thinking behind The Books of the Bible, an edition from Biblica and Zondervan that removes chapter and verse numbers and section heads and instead presents the biblical books according to their natural literary outlines. In the book I tell the story of the experiences I had that allowed me to make a vital contribution to the development of the edition as part of a skilled and visionary team. I also tell how the pioneering "initial adopters" of the format have already begun to transform what it means to engage the Bible through their new approaches to reading, studying, preaching, and teaching. I'm convinced that we need to move into a new era of Bible engagement, "after chapters and verses," if we want the coming generations to appreciate the Bible as much as previous ones did. This is the story of the dawning of that era.
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Title: After Chapters & Verses: Engaging the Bible ...
Publisher: Biblica
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good