David Titheridge

“As Jurij Lotman has provocatively put it, invoking contemporary notions of computer science, if we understood better how a poem achieved the astonishing degree of “information storage” that it does, our understanding of cybernetics in general might well be advanced.”
― Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Poetry

“For if a pastor is not in touch with joy, it will be difficult to teach or preach convincingly that the news is good.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

“What is it like, the biblical writers seek to know through their art, to be a human being with a divided consciousness—intermittently loving your brother but hating him even more; resentful or perhaps contemptuous of your father but also capable of the deepest filial regard; stumbling between disastrous ignorance and imperfect knowledge; fiercely asserting your own independence but caught in a tissue of events divinely contrived; outwardly a definite character and inwardly an unstable vortex of greed, ambition, jealousy, lust, piety, courage, compassion, and much more?”
― Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative

“The theologian who has no joy in his work is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this science.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society