![]() Meanwhile, there are ample opportunities for children to ask parents about monks, abbots, illuminations, etc. The text is not dummied down for the youth and retains some of the historical accuracy in the speech. Beebe translates this into her own text while Schindler wows with pages that look like a medieval illuminated manuscript.īeebe’s work is both entertaining and educational as children are drawn to the unique and humorous story while also being exposed to the medieval production of books. “Brother Hugo and the Bear” is based on a real ‘Hugo’ and an actual medieval note depicting an abbot whose monks have lost a book to a bear’s gullet. ![]() * L.Children may try to use the excuse that a dog ate their homework but how often do you hear of a bear eating a monk’s library book? That is indeed the creative storyline in the children’s picture book (targeting ages 5-9), “Brother Hugo and the Bear” by Katy Beebe and illustrated by S.D Schindler. In a time and world where we have too often turned Scripture into a dead text, Ike Miller's remarkable book sheds light on how we are called to live faithfully before God through our dynamic engagement with Scripture. Vanhoozer, research professor of systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School * A wonderful achievement - an enlightening study about divine illumination. This is a dogmatic account of the triune economy of illumination that, in shedding light on Augustine and Barth and other readers of Scripture, participates in the very phenomenon it describes. Ike Miller has written a tract for the times that sets forth a Christian theological account of how the God who is light distributes his light to the world in Jesus Christ via the Spirit-illumined readings of the biblical texts that testify to him. Moderns, who previously celebrated the light of reason, are now groping for ways to cope with post-Enlightenment, postmodern blues. * Bruce Riley Ashford, author of The Gospel of Our King and professor of theology and culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary * One way to summarize the story of the Bible is to say, with Jesus (quoting Isaiah 9:2), 'The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.' Today there is conflict not only between the kingdoms of light and darkness but also over rival sources of light. The result is a methodologically sophisticated, multidisciplinary volume that makes a significant contribution to current debates about illumination, participation in Christ, interpretation of Johannine literature, and theological method. ![]() Miller draws upon Augustine and Barth, in conversation with Johannine literature, to construct a trinitarian view of illumination that accounts for the affectional, intellectual, and ethical dimensions of life. Ike Miller is one of the brightest young theologians in North America, as Seeing by the Light reveals. In the light of his careful study of both the Johannine literature and the theologies of two giants from Christian history, Miller contends for a doctrine of illumination whereby we are enabled to know God and participate in Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. ![]() In order to develop this theology of illumination, Miller explores both Augustine's and Karl Barth's readings of the Gospel and Epistles of John, including Barth's previously untranslated lectures on the Gospel of John. In his constructive approach, Miller argues for a fully trinitarian view of illumination that forms not just our intellect, but also appeals to the affections and encourages our ethical action. Without denying the role of the Holy Spirit or the cognitive role of illumination, Ike Miller casts a broader vision of divine illumination and its role in the Christian life. Throughout the church's history, theologians have often answered this question by appealing to a doctrine of illumination whereby the Holy Spirit shapes our knowledge and understanding of Scripture. How can we understand God's revelation to us? ![]()
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