This first review Out of Print: A Novel is from my good friend Jeremy Bouma over at novus lumen and I am particularly pleased with these words as Jeremy summarizes the story:

In the end, the Church realizes why the Text exists: not as a replacement to God the Revealer, but as a reflection of the Revelation Himself; the meaning beneath the Text is more important than the Text itself; the power of the Text lies not in its interpreters and interpretations, but as a stand-alone entity, unpreached and uncommented; though God has revealed himself Textually, he does not stop revealing; when the Bible closes, God does not stop speaking; there is great, unifying value in rallying around simply the Text outside of doctrine, theology, and Textual interpretations; and the most important of all: we are called to BE and LIVE the Text in COMMUNITY, rather than study and know the Text individually.

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