Strategies for Reading the Gospels

Strategies for Reading the Gospels

One does not read Genesis, especially chapters 1-11, the same as one reads Esther or Ecclesiastes or Proverbs or Hosea or the epistles of Paul or the Revelation of John. Each of them requires special sensitivities.

One does not read Willa Cather or John Steinbeck the same either. Each requires contextual understanding a…