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The Seed and the Soil explores the power of the Bible that brings about God’s transforming and liberating purposes, as well as its power as an often oppressively misused text. Characterised by a wide variety of storytelling, this book is accessible to all that read it.
What People are saying about the book!
Reading Pauline Hoggarth's book, one is aware that everything she writes is deeply rooted in her own life of engagement with Scripture and in her wide experience of the Bible's impact in many different cultural contexts. She is refreshingly open about both the difficulties many people have in engaging with Scripture and the difficulties Scripture itself presents.
Richard Bauckham
Emeritus Professor of New Testament Studies, University of St Andrews
My shelves are full of books about reading the Bible, but Pauline’s new book is outstanding. It is fresh and thoughtful, grounded in personal reality and clearly the fruit of a lifetime of international ministry and friendship, and deep engagement with God’s Word. To those beginning with the Bible, Pauline passes on a wealth of practical insights, and more seasoned readers will be challenged to think more widely and more wisely.
Revd Jenny Petersen
Faith at QMUL
[This] is a more than worthy addition to our bulging library. However, this isn’t a comfortable, intellectually stimulating book about the background to the Bible or some arcane aspect of biblical theology; it is a challenging book about engaging with Scripture . . . If someone were to ask me to recommend books to help them with reading the Bible, I would have no hesitation in suggesting How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth for help in understanding the text of the Bible and The Seed and the Soil: Engaging with the Word of God as a help in letting the Bible get under your skin and transform your thinking and actions.
Eddie Arthur
Kouya.net
Speaking with a depth of pastoral sensitivity and cultural insight, this immensely powerful book is grounded with an understanding of the difficulties encountered by many Christians reading the Bible today. The writer's passion to help others identify and overcome their own challenges includes questions for personal reflection.
Amy Roche
CMS Mission Partner and Research Student at Durham University

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Publié par	Langham Creative Projects
Date de parution	27 mai 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781907713200
Langue	English

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My shelves are full of books about reading the Bible, but Pauline’s new book is outstanding. It is fresh and thoughtful, grounded in personal reality and clearly the fruit of a lifetime of international ministry and friendship, and deep engagement with God’s Word. To those beginning with the Bible, Pauline passes on a wealth of practical insights, and more seasoned readers will be challenged to think more widely and more wisely.
Jenny Petersen
Chaplain at Queen Mary College, University of London
In this excellent book about Bible engagement, Pauline Hoggarth shows at the same time the depth and width of her acquaintance with the Bible, and her rich experience of many years working around the world encouraging people to get into the Book. Her global experience and her teaching ability, take us to cross the missionary frontiers of the twenty-first century with a renewed confidence in the life giving and transforming power of Scripture.
Samuel Escobar
Professor Emeritus of Missiology, Palmer Theological Seminary
Reading Pauline Hoggarth’s book, one is aware that everything she writes is deeply rooted in her own life of engagement with Scripture and in her wide experience of the Bible’s impact in many different cultural contexts. She is refreshingly open about both the difficulties many people have in engaging with Scripture and the difficulties Scripture itself presents. In addition, it is a pleasure to read a book about engagement with the Bible that is itself engagingly written.
Richard Bauckham
Emeritus Professor of New Testament Studies, University of St. Andrews

The Seed and the Soil
Engaging with the Word of God
Pauline Hoggarth
Series Editor: David Smith
Consulting Editor: Joe Kapolyo

Titles in this series:
A Time for Mission , Samuel Escobar
Evangelical Truth , John R. W. Stott
The Human Condition , Joe M. Kapolyo
The Bible and Other Faiths , Ida Glaser
Hope for the Word , Roland Chia
The Holy Spirit , Ivan Satyavrata
Salvation Belongs to our God , Chris Wright

To Kit and Angie Inchley, for friendship

Contents

SERIES PREFACE
PREFACE
1: Transforming Word
2: Resisted Word
3: God’s Word
4: Interpreted Word
5: Offensive Word
6: Unique Word
7: Young Word
8: Church’s Word
9: Living Word
Appendix 1: Additional Resources
Appendix 2: Statement of Hermeneutical Principles207
Notes

SERIES PREFACE
This book forms part of the Global Christian Library series published by Langham Literature, a subdivision of Langham Partnership International.
The twentieth century saw a dramatic shift in the Christian centre of gravity. There are now many more Christians in Africa, Asia and Latin America than there are in Europe and North America. Two major issues have resulted, both of which the Global Christian Library seeks to address.
First, the basic theological texts available to pastors, students and lay readers in the Majority World (sometimes referred to as the Developing World) have for too long been written by Western authors from a Western perspective. There is now a need for more books by non-Western writers that reflect their own cultures. In consequence, the Global Christian Library includes work by gifted writers from the developing world who are resolved to be biblically faithful and contextually relevant.
Second, Western readers need to be able to benefit from the wisdom and insight of our sisters and brothers in other parts of the world. Given the decay of many Western churches, we urgently need an injection of non-Western Christian vitality
The adjective ‘global’ in the title of this series reflects our desire that biblical understanding will flow freely in all directions. We pray that the Global Christian Library will open up channels of communication, in fulfilment of the Apostle Paul’s conviction that it is only together with all the Lord’s people that we will be able to grasp the dimensions of Christ’s love (Eph 3:18).
Never before in the church’s long history has this possibility been so close to realization. We hope and pray that the Global Christian Library may play a part in making it a reality in the twenty-first century.
Joe M. Kapolyo
David W. Smith

PREFACE
Some time in the early 1980s, exploring the shelves of the San Pablo bookshop in La Paz, Bolivia, I came across a shabby, mimeographed booklet with an intriguing title. Biblia: Flor Sin Defensa ( The Bible: Defenseless Flower ) described the experiences of a Dutch Carmelite priest working in Brazil and witnessing what happened when marginalized and poor communities and individuals began to engage with the Bible. As I leafed through the booklet, trying to decide if it was worth buying, one sentence leapt off the page: ‘The Bible either helps or hinders, either liberates or oppresses. It is not neutral.’
The book you’re now reading seems to me to be rooted in my discovery of that unimpressive booklet and in the years that followed of reflection on that statement. I owe a great debt of gratitude to Carlos Mesters for helping me both to understand my own imprisoning and liberating experiences of the Bible, and to explore the kind of Bible engagement that sets people free to know and live the truth of God.
It was while I was still working in Bolivia that a friend lent me a book by another author who has been formative in my thinking about Scripture and to whom I want to say a very warm thank you. Eugene Peterson’s reflections on the book of Jeremiah, Run with the Horses , refreshed and energized me at a time when the Bible had become a dry textbook. Ever since, I have found Peterson’s writing unfailingly refreshing, unfailingly building my confidence in God’s word.
My warmest thanks go also to the worldwide Scripture Union fellowship with which I’ve had the privilege and enjoyment of working for some twenty-three years. These years are reflected on pretty well every page of this book! Thank you to Colin Matthews for leading a Bible Ministries Department in London back in the 1990s that was characterized by humour and lively theological debate. Thank you to Danilo Gay and John Lane for their friendship, encouragement and for asking stretching questions about our ways of working with the Bible.
Every workshop - from Sarawak to Guatemala, Latvia to Armenia - has been a rich learning experience for me, as we have explored together how God’s word addresses each different context.
Thank you too to friends and colleagues in the Forum of Bible Agencies International and particularly the Scripture Engagement Group. What a privilege – and how much fun! - it has been to work together as different Bible agencies on exploring interaction with the Bible and experiencing God’s word doing its work among us, changing us and our perspectives.
My colleagues on the small international Scripture Union team have also made major contributions to this book. The chapter titled ‘Young Word’ reflects so much that I have learned from travelling and working together with Wendy Strachan, our children’s ministry coordinator. Clayton Fergie has been a great encourager through his gift for taking ideas that I have shared with him and developing them into workshop resources. My warmest thanks go to Wendy and Clay and to Janet Morgan who, as SU’s international director, has been so encouraging about this project and generous in giving me time to write.
One small group of people has been especially significant in helping me to complete this book. Jock Stein, Sybil Davis, Ruth Pinkerton and Elizabeth McDowell have been members of an accountability group with whom I’ve met regularly for the last ten years. They have encouraged and urged me on over the embarrassingly long time it has taken to complete the work. Jock’s experience of writing and publishing has been especially helpful. In the last months of writing, Jenny Hyatt’s editorial experience was invaluable in shaping the manuscript. I couldn’t have done it without her help. Thank you so much to you all.
I want to say thank you also to Angelit Guzmán in Peru, Bob Ekblad in Seattle, David Zac Niringiye in Uganda, David Bruce in Northern Ireland, Daniel Besse and Henri Bacher in France and Silvia Regina de Lima Silva in Costa Rica for all they have taught me about life-giving and creative Scripture engagement. For reading various chapters and making helpful suggestions and comments, I’m indebted to Jenny Petersen, Allen Goddard, Joyce Smith, Chris Wright and Leanne Palmer.
Dr David Smith was the managing editor at the time when I joined this writing project. Without his kindly encouragement and patient and perceptive guidance, this book would never have been finished. Thank you so much, David, not just for your help with this book, but for your own books which have enriched my thinking and deepened my trust in God and his word.
Pauline Hoggarth
Strathkinness, Fife, December 2010

1: Transforming Word
Indeed, the word of God is living and active
— Hebrews 4:12
‘What’s wrong with my heart? My heart is hurting. What’s wrong?’ Among Quechua-speaking communities in Bolivia, this has been the consistent response of men and women as they listen together to chapter 5 of Mark’s Gospel recorded in their mother tongue. 1 They cry out as they hear Jesus ask, ‘Who touched my clothes?’ (Mark 5:30). They weep at his tender welcome of the outcast woman: ‘Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed o