Rooted and grounded...

I have been trying to digest a Hebrew linguistic grammar the last few weeks. Eisenbrauns is going to be publishing it sometime, but it isn't far enough along to be on the web. They wanted someone who knows Hebrew fairly well, but isn't a linguist, to read it. That would be I. I waded through it and learned a lot—I think! But, linguistics and I are barely on talking terms. I enjoy reading grammars (I know; go ahead and say it, "I'm crazy!"), but linguistics is another story. Maybe as I read more of it, the dread will pass...

Meanwhile, I just received a copy of Rooted in Jesus Christ last Friday and started it over the weekend. This time of year, I don't have a lot of time for reading, so don't look for a huge mass of quotes...but this one jumped out at me:

To be fully developed, both persons and societies must overcome an insubstantial level of reality by deepening their roots. In the particular case of Christian life and theology, those roots are actually a Root, Jesus Christ. I offer my proposal, with humbleness and conviction, in the midst of a plural and fragmented world. The body of Christ is the real foundation of the world, which I offer in this book at least as another voice in the pluralistic conversation.—Rooted in Jesus Christ, pages xi-xii