Cascade Books

Living the Questions of the Bible

Series: Worship and Witness

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Paperback · ISBN 9781725258372 · Published: May 16, 2023

ISBN
9781725258372
Imprint
Published
May 16, 2023 May 16, 2023
Pages
158
Dimensions
9 in × 6 in
Audience
General / Adult

About this book

Living the Questions of the Bible presents questioning as a viable and faithful Christian practice. We may think the Bible is only about getting answers, but the Bible is also a question book, revealing how the life of faith is a quest with and for God. By exploring various passages in the Bible, this book attempts to invite readers into an interrogative spirituality, one in which we learn that even God questions. Faith seeks and keeps on seeking. It may reach understanding, or it may not. Either way, our questions are a way to live the Christian life honestly, faithfully, and doxologically.

Praise for this book

“Luke Powery has been a pastor long enough to understand that the human journey into God is fueled by lasting questions, not final answers. By choosing instead to explore what we most need to ask, Powery invites us into the kind of holy uncertainty that keeps faith supple and keeps people of faith talking to one another late into the night. At his most daring, he insists it is our questions, not our answers, that make us like God.”

Barbara Brown Taylor, author of An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith


“We sometimes treat the Bible as a book of answers, but no, it is a book of questions. Luke Powery honors the questions. In fact, he has compiled his own book of questions and provided thoughtful and scriptural answers. For those with questions, which includes us all, his book offers a series of pastoral replies. Use it in the privacy of your room or, better, in group discussion.”

M. Craig Barnes, president, Princeton Theological Seminary


“I was quite intrigued when I read the title of this book. I had never paid that much attention to the questions in the Bible until Luke Powery masterfully introduced me to them and made me realize that questions are foundational to the faith. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to have their faith stretched and strengthened.”

Cynthia L. Hale, senior pastor, Ray of Hope Christian Church

About the author



Luke A. Powery is the dean of Duke University Chapel and associate professor of homiletics at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. He is an ordained Baptist minister (Progressive National Baptist) and the author and editor of several books, including co-author of Ways of the Word: Learning to Preach for Your Time and Place and a general editor of the nine-volume lectionary commentary series for preaching and worship, Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship.


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