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Luminary Interview: Andy Crouch

Rule of Life

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The Book of Proverbs Is an Incredible Collection of Wisdom

The most hotly contested book in the canonization of what we know called the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible was the book of Proverbs. If you read it as a manual, timeless truth, this is God's deposit, the manual, "it's just not true," he says. The kind of evangelical way of reading the Bible that I was brought up is not actually the Orthodox way ofReading the Bible. It was setting me up for a crisis of faith because it was making claims about the Bible that the Bible never makes for itself.

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