Eugene H Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6000161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugene H Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugene H |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON E H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eugene H. Peterson is the pastor of Christ Our King United Presbyterian Church, Bel Air, Maryland. He was formerly on the faculty of New York Theological Seminary of which he is a graduate. He also holds degrees from Seattle Pacific College and the Johns Hopkins University. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Witnesses to Transcendence
Breaking the Fall
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Holy Luck
Annie Dillard
“Annie Dillard prays with her eyes open. She says, Spread out your hands, lift up your head, open your eyes, and we'll pray... She gets us into the theater that Calvin told us about, and we find ourselves in the solid biblical companionship of psalmists and prophets who watched the ‘hills skip like lambs’ and heard the ‘trees clap their hands,’ alert to God everywhere.”
Theological Table-Talk
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“Worship, in the biblical sources and in liturgical history, is not something a person experiences, it is something he does, regardless of how he feels about it, or whether he feels anything about it at all.... Baalism provided a rich array of ‘worship experiences.’ Israel and the Christian church insisted that worship was the proclamation of the will of God and the call for human response to it.”
Apocalypse
“The Apocalypse is non-literary in its inception. ... No biblical book has suffered such an extreme fate at the hands of its scholarly exegetes. The reason is now easy to see—no biblical book has been so far removed in its origin from the literary medium. ... Television-trained lay Christians may discover that it is the one biblical book in which they hold an interpretive advantage over their more bookish pastors and theologians. It may again bec…
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Apocalypse
“The Apocalypse is non-literary in its inception. ... No biblical book has suffered such an extreme fate at the hands of its scholarly exegetes. The reason is now easy to see—no biblical book has been so far removed in its origin from the literary medium. ... Television-trained lay Christians may discover that it is the one biblical book in which they hold an interpretive advantage over their more bookish pastors and theologians. It may again bec…
Baalism and Yahwism Updated
“Worship, in the biblical sources and in liturgical history, is not something a person experiences, it is something he does, regardless of how he feels about it, or whether he feels anything about it at all.... Baalism provided a rich array of ‘worship experiences.’ Israel and the Christian church insisted that worship was the proclamation of the will of God and the call for human response to it.”
Theological Table-Talk
Annie Dillard
“Annie Dillard prays with her eyes open. She says, Spread out your hands, lift up your head, open your eyes, and we'll pray... She gets us into the theater that Calvin told us about, and we find ourselves in the solid biblical companionship of psalmists and prophets who watched the ‘hills skip like lambs’ and heard the ‘trees clap their hands,’ alert to God everywhere.”
Holy Luck
Symposium
Some of My Favorites
Breaking the Fall
Witnesses to Transcendence
Eat This Book
Philosophy (10 works) · Theology (10 works) · Art (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media, Religion, Digital Communication (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work)