Take and Read: Spiritual Reading -- An Annotated List (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802840967)

Spiritual reading has fallen on bad times. Today, reading is largely a consumer activity, done for information that may fuel ambitions or careers -- and the faster the better. Take and Read represents Eugene H. Peterson's attempt to rekindle the activity of spiritual reading, reading that considers any book that comes to hand in a spiritual way, tuned to the Spirit, alert to intimations of God.

Take and Read provides an annotated list of the books that have stood the test of time and that, for Peterson, are spiritually formative in the Christian life. The books on this list range from standard spiritual classics to novels, poems, and mysteries, and include an equally broad spectrum of authors -- from Augustine and C. S. Lewis to William Faulkner and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Annotations following each entry offer Peterson's own significant insights into the power of each work.

Author: Eugene H. Peterson
ISBN-10: 0802840965
ISBN-13: 9780802840967
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 12/14/1995
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.91h x 5.97w x 0.38d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/08/1996 pg. 33