The Dream of God: A Call to Return
by Verna J. Dozier
Sophfronia references this book in the week seven video, discussing Dozier’s quote “The very essence of God’s gift is community.”
Note, a reprinting of the book is forthcoming with a foreword by Sophfronia.
Here’s the description of the current edition from Church Publishing:
A beloved teacher helps modern people live the Bible’s message more fully.
Respected teacher and author Verna Dozier explores the ways that humanity and the institutional church have strayed far from Jesus’s original message. To help us get back on track, she examines the Bible: a theological and historical record of hundreds of years in which two communities of faith (Jewish and early Christian) explored their own life experiences. Our task now is not to ask which interpretations are correct, but to ask “what did it mean to them” and “what does it mean for us?” Dozier encourages us to see Christianity not as creed or institution, but as “the vision of a new possibility for human life rooted in an ancient understanding of God and lived out by a Nazarene carpenter.”
Through adept storytelling and study, Dozier reawakens our sense of calling and our desire for truth.