A Romp Through The Bible

About the Book

This book is the result of many years of sharing with laypersons my love of the Bible. Like most people, I learned Bible stories at home and in the church; but never caught sight of the whole thing. No one ever put together for me the amazing kaleidoscope of prophets, historians, storytellers, and visionaries who tell of their own encounters with life and God in the Bible.

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Dr. Phillippe reminds his readers that this is first and foremost a romp... " True to the definition of romp, "to play boisterously," he moves the reader quickly through the sixty-six books of the Old and New testament and fifteen of the Apocrypha and does it with a style he believes the writers would approve, even if the normally stodgy interpreters of the Bible might not.

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About the Author

William R. Phillippe was born in Pittsburgh where he says, "Presbyterians are more dense than anywhere else in the country." Educated at Muskingum College in Ohio and Pittsburgh and Princeton Seminaries. He held pastorates in Valley Forge and Pittsburgh, PA; Grosse Pointe, MI, Summit, NJ, Monmouth and Lake Forest, IL; and has been interim Senior Pastor at both Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. He has taught at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, University of Pittsburgh, Loyola University of Baltimore and has lectured at many other schools and conferences.

For ten years he served as a Synod Executive in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and as Chair of the Civil and Religious Liberty committee of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

He has been described as, "a creative, biblically based preacher/teacher, witnessing to the global context of the Christian Church."