Reading%20Ruth%20in%20context

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Reading Ruth in context

• through the centuries
• across the cultures

chronologically
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Ambrose of Milan C 340 397

• One of the eight Great Doctors of the Undivided
  Church the four Latin (Western) Doctors
  (Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and Pope Gregory the
  Great), and four Greek (Eastern) Doctors
  (Athanasius, John Chrysostom, Basil the Great,
  and Gregory of Nazianzus).

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Isidore of Seville c 560 636

• Bishop of Seville, prolific writer and promoter
  of learning.

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Nicholas of Lyra c 1270-1349

• French, author of the first printed commentary
  on the Bible and one of the foremost Franciscan
  theologians and influential exegetes of the
  Middle Ages.

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Richard Bernard c 1568-1644

• 16th century Church of England clergyman and
  writer lifelong non-conformist.

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John Wesley 1703-1791

• Churchman, scholar, evangelist, struggler with
  God, shaper of English Methodism.

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Charles Spurgeon 1834 -1892

• Baptist pastor, preacher and evangelist,
  sometimes called the last of the Puritans.

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Julie Li-Chuan Chu

• Taiwanese biblical scholar and co-pastor with
  her husband in the Presbyterian church of Taiwan.

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Musimbi Kanyoro

• Kenyan theologian and biblical scholar leader
  in the Circle of Concerned African Women
  Theologians YWCA general secretary.

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Richard Bauckham

• Professor of New Testament Studies, St Andrews
  University, Scotland.
• Prolific writer and specialist on the theology
  of Jürgen Moltmann.

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Eugene Peterson

• American pastor of pastors, Bible scholar,
  writer and translator of The Message.

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Ruth in our day

• because there is
• famine in the land

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• because there is
• political and economic turmoil

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Naomi and Ruth are among us

• in Kosovo

and Burundi
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• in Haiti
• and Iraq

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• in the USA

and the UK
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• in Israel
• and Palestine

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on the roads

• of the worlds
• cities

and rural areas
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• What might it mean to embody Gods Kingdom to
  people like these?
• How can we be Boaz today?

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• To what extent do these readings from different
  centuries and different cultural perspectives
  change and enrich our understandings of the book
  of Ruth?
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• What aspects of the readings youve heard today
  would you want to question and why?

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For next week

• With the help of the 3 lenses, and by talking
  with the text, explore Lukes account in Acts
  51-11.
• What might it mean for us today? How shall we
  live it?