About this episode

Richard Beck discusses reading the Bible through the lens of love and the implications of our attachment to God.

In this conversation with Richard Beck, author of The Book of Love, we explore what it actually means to read Scripture through the hermeneutic of love. Richard helps us see that we have to reckon with our attachment to God - whether we actually believe he's for us - because that fear or security shapes everything about how we read. We get into the violent texts of the Old Testament, why both conservatives and progressives have their own blind spots, how the Bible raises hard questions, and w...

People in this episode

Host: Joshua Johnson

Guest: Richard Beck

Topics covered

• Bible interpretation
• hermeneutics
• love
• Old Testament
• faith
• blind spots

Keywords

• Bible
• love
• hermeneutic
• Old Testament
• faith
• conservatives
• progressives

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Book of Love

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