| Theologian and former pastor Eugene Peterson discusses his book Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology. Peterson notes the impetus for the volume (his desire to develop a theological base for pastoral work), and describes the difference between pastoral theology as taught in many seminaries and spiritual theology. He explains what he means when he emphasizes thinking "narrativally." He also commends the work of writer Wendell Berry as witnessing to the importance and recovery of, among other goods, storytelling. Peterson concludes that Christians especially—because of their understanding of the world as created through the Word—ought to be "shepherds of language"; "take care of those words," he says, "make sure they're clean, well fed." |
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology (Eerdmans, 2005) |
