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Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible with Deuterocanonical Books (Leatherlike Cover)

This version includes the Old and New Testaments as well as the Deuterocanonical books.

Five years in the making, The Life with God Bible (formerly published as the Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible) seeks to recover the dynamics of Scripture for the spiritual transformation of the people of God: past, present, and future. It provides a view of God’s community through history, the ups-and-downs, ins-and-outs of a with-God life. While other study Bibles serve as resources for sermon exposition, higher criticism, or personal devotion, The Life with God Bible helps us capture the reality of living with the Trinitarian community in the ever-present kingdom of God. It recasts the Bible as the primary written resource for informing our minds and transforming our spirits in Christlikeness.

As part of making the Bible more accessible for the process of intentional formation in Christlikeness, The Life with God Bible includes:

  • major essays and graphic representations highlighting 15 expressions of the With-God Life;
  • essays and notes for each book of the Bible;
  • 50 character sketches giving a sense of the ways key Biblical figures lived with-God;
  • an index of places various spiritual disciplines appear in the Scripture.

The Life with God Bible includes the efforts of:

General Editors — Gayle Beebe, Richard J. Foster, Lynda L. Graybeal, Thomas C. Oden, Dallas Willard

Old Testament and Deuterocanonical Editor — Walter Brueggemann

New Testament Editor — Eugene Peterson

Character Sketches — Brenda Quinn

Additional Contributors include:

Howard Baker — Timothy K. Beal — William Bellinger — Timothy Brown — Walter Brueggemann — Glandion Carney — Ellen Charry — James Crenshaw — Marva Dawn — Kerry Dearborn — Bruce Demarest — David A. deSilva — James R. Edwards — Peter Enns — Rebecca J. Kruger Gaudino — Emilie Griffin — Christopher A. Hall — Andrew Hill — Evan B. Howard — Darlene Hyatt — Walter Kaiser — Joshua Choon Min Kang — Ralph W. Klein — Nancy Lee — Rebekah Close LeMon — William R. Long — Tremper Longman III — Howard R. Macy — James Earl Massey — Clint McCann — Trevor Miller — Rickie Moore — Barbara M. Musselman — Agnes Norfleet — Virginia Stem Owens — Earl Palmer — Eugene Peterson — Murray Pura — Andrew Purves — James M. Rand — Kimberly Richter — Michael Riley — Edwin Searcy — Roy Searle — Timothy F. Simpson — Felicia and Lyle SmithGraybeal — Catherine Taylor — Bonnie Thurston — William H. Willimon — Ben Witherington III