Enjoying the Bible with Matthew Mullins

How would our love for Christ be transformed if we were to stop reading the Bible merely to conquer the text and begin to read it in order to be enchanted with it?
Why do we need to invest more than intellect and reason to deepen our understanding of the scriptures?
How does reading the literature and poetry of the Bible pull us into participating with God on His terms rather than our own?
How can we deepen our experience of Biblical literature by simply standing in front of it like a painting?
In this interview with Dr. Matthew Mullins, we discuss his book, “Enjoying the Bible: Literary Approaches to Loving the Scriptures”. Mullins offers some practical guidance for an aesthetic of reading that will help us unlock the deeper meaning in the scriptures and thereby provide us with a clearer picture of what it means to live well.
We discuss how we can all become better readers of the Bible, not by simply discerning what it says, but by attending to how it speaks. Whether you have been reading the Bible for years or beginning to explore it for the first time, you can allow it to fire your imagination and emotion to experience it in a more meaningful way.
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Matthew Mullins says he's not a biblical scholar, but a literary critic and a literature professor. Of course that's true. However, like CS Lewis, I think Mullins brings an insightful literary eye - intelligence and knowledge and experience - to bear on how to read and understand and love the Bible. Indeed, if I can say so humbly and respectfully, most biblical scholars don't do what Mullins does; most biblical scholars don't have a proper taste for the literary aspects of Scripture. In this respect, it's very helpful to read Mullins' book Enjoying the Bible, then move onto reading books in the field of biblical theology. Biblical theology is primarily about tracing the main storyline of redemption along with many other storylines (e.g. the temple, atonement, the Messiah) across a book or books of the Bible or across the entire Bible. For example, biblical theology looks at how the story of redemption unfolds from Genesis to Revelation. As such, Mullins' book complements the biblical theological work of scholars like Don Carson, Tom Schreiner, Greg Beale, T. Desmond Alexander, L. Michael Morales, Mitchell Chase, Jim Hamilton, Graeme Goldsworthy, and others. Mullins' book whets one's appetite for knowing and living and loving the Word of God. May Mullins prove a blessing to many! 😊
Edit. A good next book to read after Mullins' Enjoying the Bible is The Dawning of Redemption: The Story of the Pentateuch and the Hope of the Gospel by Ian Vaillancourt. 😊