Review of “The Blue Parakeet” – #4
Reading the Bible as story is critical, McKnight argues, because “context is everything.” That is, the meaning of texts, especially of “blue parakeet” texts, is… Read More »Review of “The Blue Parakeet” – #4
Reading the Bible as story is critical, McKnight argues, because “context is everything.” That is, the meaning of texts, especially of “blue parakeet” texts, is… Read More »Review of “The Blue Parakeet” – #4
This kind of reading requires three commitments, according to McKnight. First, we must commit to read Scripture as story. Second, we must commit to a… Read More »Review of “The Blue Parakeet” – #3
McKnight suggests that these “blue parakeets” in Scripture lead us to read the Bible in one of three ways. First, some “read to retrieve.” We “return… Read More »Review of “The Blue Parakeet” – #2
God said it, I believe it, that settles it for me!
Author Scot McKnight, in “The Blue Parakeet” (Zondervan, 2008), argues that this time-honored approach to the Bible is inadequate. Its weakness is exposed when we stumble upon the “blue parakeets” of Scripture. Read More »Review of “The Blue Parakeet” – #1