book review
How to Remove Our Bible-Reading Blinders
How to Remove Our Bible-Reading Blinders
Randolph Richards and Brandon
O'Brien help us see through different cultural lenses.
Review by Christopher
Hall
The cover of 'Misreading Scripture withWestern Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible'
(InterVarsity) is striking. Authors E. Randolph Richards (dean of the School of
Christian Ministry at Palm Beach Atlantic University) and Brandon J. O'Brien
(an editor at large for Leadership Journal) have us look at a white, male face,
gazing outward from behind a printed page, eyes covered by blue-tinted glasses.
The message is clear, as is the overarching message of the book: North American
evangelicals 'read' the Bible--and the world--through Western eyes.
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