How to Read a Book: Advice for Christian Readers

How to Read a Book: Advice for Christian ReadersImagine a well read man. Do you see a machine dressed in tweed gorging on information? This book is not about becoming that kind of reader. The well read man wakes up and consults with Moses on the way to work. He sips his coffee and ponders the wisdom of Hannibal's elephants crossing the Alps. He turns furrowed browed philosophers upside down and takes their lunch money. He changes his oil and deliberates with Peter Drucker about effective management

Although Berkhof's subject is the Bible

as well as chapters on major world religions and cults in North America

Good character produces good quality

and extrabiblical literature

fantasists who prized sanity

the Scriptures

Peter has written a comprehensive handbook for pastors and staff who direct these churches

Issues Commentary

As the reader will come to find out

long-misunderstood theological concepts and the practical pastoral problems they raise for Christians

the story of Scripture from the original creation to the new creation wouldn’t hold together without natural law

Book also contains many of the author's own sermons as examples to draw from