Reading Ruth in context… through the centuries across the cultures.
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Reading Ruth in context…Reading Ruth in context…
• through the centuries
• across the cultures
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Ambrose of Milan Ambrose of Milan C 340 – 397C 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 – 636Isidore of Seville c 560 – 636
Bishop of Seville, prolific writer and promoter of learning.
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Nicholas of Lyra c 1270-1349Nicholas 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 1568-1644Richard Bernard c 1568-1644
16th century Church of England clergyman and writer; lifelong non-conformist.
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John Wesley 1703-1791John Wesley 1703-1791
Churchman, scholar, evangelist, struggler with God, shaper of English Methodism.
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Charles Spurgeon: 1834 -Charles Spurgeon: 1834 -18921892
Baptist pastor, preacher and evangelist, sometimes called ‘the last of the Puritans’.
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Julie Li-Chuan ChuJulie Li-Chuan Chu
Taiwanese biblical scholar and co-pastor with her husband in the Presbyterian church of Taiwan.
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Musimbi KanyoroMusimbi Kanyoro
Kenyan theologian and biblical scholar; leader in the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians; YWCA general secretary.
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Richard BauckhamRichard 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 PetersonEugene Peterson
American pastor of pastors, Bible scholar, writer and translator of The Message.
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Ruth in our day…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 Naomi and Ruth are among us…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…on the roads…
of the world’s cities
and rural areas…
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What might it mean to embody God’s 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?
• What aspects of the readings
you’ve heard today would you want to question and why?
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For next week…For next week…
With the help of the 3 lenses, and by talking with the text, explore Luke’s account in Acts 5:1-11.
What might it mean for us today? How shall we live it?