The Key to Maturity
Rick Capezza has written the first amazon.com review of The Covenant Key…
I have to admit that when I first heard that a graphic designer had written a book on how to read the Bible, I giggled a bit. I thought of a computer nerd who sees the Bible as ideology, not as literature.
But I forgot that graphic designers are also artists. When I read Bible Matrix I, I quickly learned that Mike Bull is like a curator who can explain why a sculptor formed each curve of his statue. This is not to say that Bull is creating fanciful interpretations of a straightforward Bible. He simply understands the Great Poet and the Great Story.
He truly knows God’s artistry. He breathes death and resurrection and sees the pattern of Scripture moving from glory to glory – both here and now, and in eternity. Bull understands the sweet beauty of maturation. He sees the centrality of the covenant and moves fluidly through Scriptural covenant structures. When people arrange things, they arrange by organization. But God orders through relationships. Mike Bull understands both the man-ordered garden and the God-ordered forest, and seeks to express God’s order in a form that helps us see both the forest and the trees. Not everyone will get it the first time, but the poets will.
If you liked Bible Matrix I, you’ll love Bible Matrix II. The Covenant Key goes deeper and is written in an even more fluid style than the first volume on the DNA of the Scriptures. This book is sweet to the soul and pierces the heart. Put it in your collection right now. Eat it slowly and digest.
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle’s Adam (1888-89) at the Cullen Sculpture Garden, Houston. Photo by Rocky Kneten www.rockykneten.com
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