The Blue Parakeet has Landed (Zondervan Review Pt. 1)

EDIT: Zondervan only needed a brief review, rather than a full-blown production.  So what follows is a review of the introductory material of the book.

Zondervan’s pre-release copy of “The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible” by Scot McKnight has arrived!

Rather than reading the whole book and doing a holistic review, I will do a more longitudinal chapter-by-chapter review.  (At least, that’s the current plan .

On first inspection, the book looks good.  It is lightweight, at 236 pages.  My copy is a small paperback, but I understand that the true volume will be a hardcover.

The chapters appear very well laid out.  There are sectional headings that conveniently break up the text into a nice outline, with subheadings within each main heading as well.

[[EDIT]]  I will make the table of contents also a simultaneous list of hyperlinks that will link to each segment of my review, as we go along.

The table of contents reads as follows:

Contents

1. The Book and I
2. The Birds and I

Part 1-  Story: What is the Bible?
3. Inkblots and Puzzles
4. It’s a Story with Power!
5. The Plot of the Wiki-Stories

Part 2- Listening: What Do I Do with the Bible?
6. From Paper to Person
7. God Speaks, We Listen
8. The Boring Chapter (on Missional Listening)

Part 3- Discerning: How Do I Benefit from the Bible?
9. The Year of Living Jesus-ly
10. Finding the Pattern of Discernment

Part 4- Women in Church Ministries Today
11. The Bible and Women
12. What Did Women Do in the Old Testament?
13. What Did Women Do in the New Testament?
14. Silencing the Blue Parakeet (1)
15. Silencing the Blue Parakeet (2)

Now What?
After Words

Appendix 1.  A Discernment Quiz
Appendix 2.  Images of Jesus
Appendix 3.  1 Corinthians 14:34-35
Appendix 4.  Petronius on the New Roman Woman
Appendix 5.  Juvenal on First-Century Women

Notes

[[END OF CONTENTS]]

The topics of part 4 are already bringing back memories of all the interesting debates at Bible college…

I will follow up with review posts as we go along!

-ACR