World-building, worship, and wonder
What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on their response in a few sentences. To see all of the responses together as they are posted, bookmark this page.
World-building, worship, and wonder
As the church became regularized, it produced “the Bible”: a floating signifier with no consistent corpus. Read or heard devotionally, biblical texts become scripture for Christians: a guide for fashioning lives after Christ, imagining and reimagining reality as sacred, and returning to moments of awe where the why of being finds its answer in our apprehension of what is good, true, and beautiful in all things–that source which we dare to call God.
