Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, Eugene Peterson
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, Eugene Peterson
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Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places
A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

Author: Eugene Peterson

Narrator: Eugene Peterson

Unabridged: 15 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/01/2005

Synopsis

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places reunites spirituality and theology in a cultural context where these two vital facets of Christian faith have been rent asunder. Lamenting the vacuous, often pagan nature of contemporary American spirituality, Eugene Peterson here firmly grounds spirituality once more in Trinitarian theology and offers a clear, practical statement of what it means to actually live out the Christian life. Writing in the conversational style that he is well known for, Peterson boldly sweeps out the misunderstandings that clutter conversations on spiritual theology and refurnishes the subject only with what is essential. As Peterson shows, spiritual theology, in order to be at once biblical and meaningful, must remain sensitive to ordinary life, present the Christian gospel, follow the narrative of Scripture, and be rooted in the “fear of the Lord” — in short, spiritual theology must be about God and not about us. The foundational book in a five-volume series on spiritual theology emerging from Peterson’s pen, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places provides the conceptual and directional help we all need to live the Christian gospel well and maturely in the conditions that prevail in the church and world today.

About Eugene Peterson

Eugene H. Peterson, author of The Message, a bestselling translation of the Bible, is professor emeritus of spiritual theology at Regent College, British Columbia, and the author of over thirty books. He and his wife, Jan, live in Montana.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michele on August 17, 2017

Life, Life, and More Life We picked raspberries a couple of weeks ago — the free kind that grow along the edges of fields and in the company of thistles. They were succulent. I could wrap words around a description of raspberry picking: the gentle encompassing pressure that releases a perfectly ripe......more

Goodreads review by Joel on February 28, 2008

This is the most marked book I own. It is underlined, circled, bracketed with parentheses, exclamation marked, question marked, starred. Peterson engages me like I hadn't been engaged reading theology and I read a substantial amount of it. Compared to the writing skills of other theologians he is a......more

Goodreads review by Taylor on February 16, 2009

This was a wonderful book and I highly recommend it. I see that several reviewers have mentioned this isn't an easy book, and I might agree with them. However, I chose to listen to, rather than read, this book. The audio production of this work (much like the audio production of Eugene's The Message......more

Goodreads review by Joe on March 14, 2023

I don't read much Christian or religious nonfiction anymore. I find most of the "genre" to be warmed-over self-help backed by harmful "personal ancedote masquerading as objective truth" (my general rule of thumb is that you can just read the back cover or inside flap of most Christian nonfiction and......more

Goodreads review by Justin on September 23, 2020

I never used to like devotional writing, but being in seminary threatens to take Bible study too far into the academic realm and more or less forces you to OD on theology. Hence, I find I need some periodic grounding in lived faith. This series is quite good, and motivates prayer and action.......more

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