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How the Bible Actually Works

How the Bible Actually Works

In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News

By
Peter Enns
Peter Enns

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653 books

Owned

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Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story
Prince Caspian
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Monster, She Wrote

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1,067 books

History

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Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

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670 books

Bucket List

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Carla
Do With Me What You Will
The Weather of the Heart: Selected Poems
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

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590 books

Religion

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Carla
The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland

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190 books

Essays

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Killings
Greenlights

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88 books

Audiobook

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Home Before Dark
The Sphinx at Dawn: Two Stories

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60 books

Dark Academia

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Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
My Dark Vanessa

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17 books

Anthropology

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The New Testament

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23 books

Bible

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Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher
The New Testament

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726 books

Religion

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Signature in the Cell
Darwin's Black Box
Life Together
Out of the Silent Planet
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution

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21 books

Made Me Think

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Phil Lemons
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Ancillary Justice
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

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3 books

Faith

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Phil Lemons
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

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3 books

Dnf

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The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
The Extended Mind

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218 books

Non Fiction

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Harisa
Dear Girls
Led by Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide
Em defesa de Cristo
Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You
Becoming
Lean Out: The Truth About Women, Power, and the Workplace
Forever and Ever, Amen: A Memoir of Music, Faith, and Braving the Storms of Life

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25 books

Theology

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Elisa Romagnoli
Intersectional Theology: An Introductory Guide
Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
Dear Church
Common prayer
Jesus feminist
Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy

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13 books

Bible

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The lamb's supper
Holy Bible: King James Version
The First Noel
The Orthodox Study Bible
The Voice of the Eagle/the Heart of Celtic Christianity: Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. John

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101 books

Heard About On A Podcast

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Behold the Dreamers
Washington Black
Brown: Poems
Too Much Is Not Enough
The Good Immigrant
Trick Mirror
Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical

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48 books

Religion

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Disunity in Christ
A Grief Observed
A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament
Defiant: What the Women of Exodus Teach Us about Freedom
Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation
Reading While Black
The Color of Compromise

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135 books

Learning

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The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Give Us the Ballot
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
How to Raise a Feminist Son