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Eugene Peterson Working the Angles

Eugene Peterson Working the Angles. Prayer. Teaching. Preaching. Spiritual Direction. Scripture. Administration. Peterson – Working the Angles. Choose an “Amanuensis.” You have made an outline his chapters and have grasped his argument’s focus and direction.

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Eugene Peterson Working the Angles

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  1. Eugene Peterson Working the Angles Prayer Teaching Preaching Spiritual Direction Scripture Administration

  2. Peterson – Working the Angles • Choose an “Amanuensis.” • You have made an outline his chapters and have grasped his argument’s focus and direction. • Indicate to me what are the most essential issues for you. • Make a list of insights and truths worthy of our discussion/reflection in class. • Memorable “Peterson-isms” Quotes.

  3. How To Read Anything…Well • 1. RECURRENCE • The repetition of the same or similar terms, phrases, or other elements. • 2. CONTRAST • The association of things whose differences are stressed by the writer. Key terms: But, however. • 3. COMPARISON • Association of things whose similarities (likenesses) are stressed by the writer. Key terms: Like, as.

  4. How To Read Well • 4. CLIMAX • Movement from lesser to greater, toward a high point of culmination and intensity. (Involves implicitly an element of contrast, and usually causation.) • 5. CRUCIALITY - PIVOT • The device of the pivot to produce a radical reversal or complete change or direction. (Involves implicitly recurrence of causation and contrast.) • 6. PARTICULARIZATION • The movement from the general to the particular. (involves implicitly preparation/realization.)

  5. How To Read • 7. GENERALIZATION • The movement from particular to general. (Involves implicitly preparation/realization.) • 8. CAUSATION • The movement from cause to effect. (Involves implicitly preparation/realization.) Key terms: Therefore, consequently. • 9. SUBSTANTIATION • The movement from effect to cause. (Involves implicitly preparation/realization.) Key terms: For, because, since. • 10. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE • The movement from means to end; a statement that declares the end, or purpose, and the means whereby the end is achieved. Key terms: In order that, so that. (Involves implicitly causation.)

  6. How To Read • 11. INTRODUCTION • The background or setting for events or ideas. • 12. SUMMARIZATION • An abridgment (summing up) either preceding or following a unit of material. (Sometimes very similar to a general statement, but contains more specifics than a general statement.) • 13. PROBLEM-SOLUTION or QUESTION-ANSWER • A problem or question, followed by its solution or answer. (Involves implicitly preparation/realization. and often causation. The problem/solution type involves contrast.)

  7. Peterson – Working the Angles“Gaza Notes” • Acts 8:30 “Do you understand what you are reading?” • ginw,skeij a] avnaginw,skeijÈ • Acts 8:31 “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” • eva.n mh, tij o`dhgh,sei meÈ

  8. What You See Is What You Get What You Hear Is What You Believe Psalm 40:6-8 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but my ears you have pierced (dug out); burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require. Then I said, “Here I am, I have come-- it is written about me in the scroll. I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.” Cause  Effect

  9. How To Read Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but my ears you have pierced; burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.

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