What Is the Bible?

What Is the Bible?

By
Rob Bell
Rob Bell
2019 • 336 pages

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652 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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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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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
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

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88 books

Audiobook

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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
Blackwater I: The Flood
Home Before Dark
The Sphinx at Dawn: Two Stories

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23 books

Bible

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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
Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher
The New Testament

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189 books

Sn Br

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Melissa
On the Road
House Arrest
Anne of Green Gables
A royal pain
Nathan Coulter
A World Lost
Remembering

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116 books

2017

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Great and Terrible Quest
Seven wonders of Sassafras Springs
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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62 books

Spirituality And Religion

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Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to give love, create beauty and find peace
The Shaping of a Life: A Spiritual Landscape
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why
Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

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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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107 books

To Purchase

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God Help the Child
Liberation Theology for Armchair Theologians
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence
Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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25 books

Theology

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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: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy

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329 books

Books I Own

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Ben Bedo
The enneagram
What You Did
Blood for Blood
The Killer Collective

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87 books

Read In 2017

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Advent in Narnia
Leaf by Niggle
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
The Dispatcher
Roverandom
Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
The Atopia Chronicles

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108 books

Reviewed

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Holy Disunity: How What Separates Us Can Save Us
Heavy Burdens
Abuelita Faith
The Case for Christianity
A Bigger Table, Expanded Edition with Study Guide: Building Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Community
The Fellowship of the Ring
Perelandra

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288 books

Theology

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Is God to Blame? Moving Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering
Against Calvinism: Rescuing God's Reputation from Radical Reformed Theology
Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology
Erring: A Postmodern A/theology
Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?
What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church

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31 books

About The Bible

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What Is the Bible?
The Blue Parakeet
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible
Reading the Bible Again For the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally
How to Read the Bible as Literature
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

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19 books

Scripture

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The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues
Evolution of the Word: The New Testament in the Order the Books Were Written
Testing Scripture: A Scientist Explores the Bible
What Is the Bible?

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95 books

Progressive Christian

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A Generous Orthodoxy
Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us
Out of Sorts
Faith Shift
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women

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92 books

Progressive Christianity

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Velvet Elvis
Love Wins
The Shack
A Generous Orthodoxy
Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament

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87 books

5 Star

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What Is the Bible?
The Doors of the Sea
A Grief Observed
Inspired
When I Fly with Papa
When God Made You
A Circle of Quiet

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41 books

Hermeneutics

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The Blue Parakeet
A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "Master"
The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation
Whose community? which interpretation?
Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible
What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity?

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30 books

Theology Book Club

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Rescuing Jesus
What Is the Bible?
Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son