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This collection of essays by Robert Funk delves into the contributions of notable artists and intellectuals, including Kafka, Beckett, Henry Miller, Castaneda, Fowles, and Thoreau, to illuminate the true successors of Jesus. In the section titled 'Voices of Silence,' Funk examines the interplay between language and contemporary reality. He ultimately addresses the pivotal theological question of whether individuals can identify a genuine world to which they can fully commit, offering twenty-one propositions on theology in response.

The word “bible” means library. And like the anthology commonly known by that title, this book is a small “library” of translations and paraphrases of twenty-four biblical texts. The author has chosen to treat these texts much as an archaeologist does shards from a dig, examining them closely within their original context. He thereby aims to let contemporary readers hear these important texts as they were heard by ordinary people of first-century Palestine and to suggest ways they can be used for instruction and inspiration in today’s world. Harry T. Cook is an Episcopal priest, journalist, author and peace-and-justice activist. His many publications include Long Live Salvation by Works: A Humanist Manifesto (2012) and What a Friend They Had in Jesus: The Theological Visions of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Hymn Writers (2013).