Biblical Fracking

Christian theology has lacked a tradition resembling Jewish midrash ("e;inquiring"e; or "e;expounding"e;) to explore beyond the literal texts of Scripture. Francis H. Wade fills that gap with Biblical Fracking: Midrash for the Modern Christian. As he writes in the introduction, "e;Biblical fracking, in the spirit of its historical roots and its geological namesake, means reaching into the cracks a...