Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
For For readers interested in how Jesus talked, in his parables and his prayers, and what that means for their own speech; best after the earlier volumes.
The fourth volume of Peterson's spiritual theology, published by Eerdmans in 2008. It is about language: how Jesus spoke, and how the way we speak of God and to God is part of the spiritual life. The first part works through the stories Jesus tells in Luke's account of his journey through Samaria to Jerusalem; the second turns to his prayers. The title is from Emily Dickinson's line about telling all the truth but telling it slant, which Peterson takes as a description of Jesus' indirect, story-shaped speech. It follows The Jesus Way and precedes Practice Resurrection.
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