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Reviews and Endorsements
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[Endorsement]
- “Kayle de Waal’s Hearing the Way reflects his passion for mission that I have witnessed in his work as a pastor and evangelist. But this book also captures his desire to make academia accessible to church members,small-group leaders, workshop presenters and preachers.”—Eddie Tupa’i, President, New Zealand Pacific Union Conference
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[Endorsement]
- “Hearing the Way provides an entry into the New Testament via a door that is very much Old Testament-ish. It is a helpful reminder, to us as visual and digital natives and immigrants, that the earliest Christians were more often hearers rather than readers. This fact impacts on the way the Scriptures were written, and how we should hear, interpret and apply them. I hope that de Waal’s work will motivate other serious students of Scripture to continue the development of a fully-fledged hermeneutic of hearing.”—Professor Ray Roennfeldt, PhD, President, Avondale College of Higher Education
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[Endorsement]
- “This book shows how the early Christians used the Old Testament to explain what following Jesus meant. I now see the New Testament with anew pair of glasses—a new frame of reference—and it makes a familiar text exciting and refreshing all over again. If this is a ‘way’ you would like to go, I highly recommend this book.”—Glenn Townend, President, South Pacific Division
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[Endorsement]
- “Kayle de Waal makes a persuasive case for the importance of understanding the motif of the ‘way’ in the New Testament on the basis of strong connections with the Old Testament, urging Jesus as the final, superior, and climactic Way to be admired and followed.” —Jiří Moskala, Dean, Seventh-Day Adventist Theological Seminary, Professor of Old Testament Exegesis and Theology
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[Endorsement]
- “In this thoughtful and accessible volume, Kayle de Waal has shown us the way that challenging and high-quality biblical research can continue to enrich the life and witness of the disciple community. With a scholar’s grasp of literary structure and a pastor’s skill in bringing the Word to the life lived, he has offered a ‘new exodus’ of his own—one that leads the worshipping fellowship of Christ-followers out of the naïve and simplistic readings of Scripture that we too often settle for. Having followed de Waal on his exploration of ‘the way’, I will never read the New Testament as I used to—and that’s a gift I celebrate.” —Dr Bill Knott, Editor, Adventist Review and Adventist World
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[ Bookshelf Review ]
- These days it is hard to imagine a society where travel to the next town might take a day or two on foot, where the majority of people do not know how to read and knowledge is entrusted to a privileged few. As Jesus and then His followers moved around the Mediterranean, His message was conveyed by word of mouth—and where the first stories of Jesus and letters were written, they were then read to the earliest groups of believers. It was in this context that they “heard” the way.
When I picked up Kayle de Waal’s new book Hearing The Way, I was challenged to realise that back in the days of the apostles these facts were a way of life. This book takes you back to those times and explores how the apostles used the knowledge of the Old Testament, which the people already had, to explain the new concepts that they were presenting to them.
Head of the Avondale Seminary at Avondale University College, Dr de Waal explains how each of the New Testament writers drew on key passages in the Old Testament to help the people they were talking to understand Jesus’ mission on earth and what He had in store for them. Hearing the Way is read best with your Bible in hand and this will help you begin to see the New Testament in a new light. At the end of each chapter, there are questions to encourage discussion, making it great for workshopping or small groups.
Reading Hearing the Way will not only bring new insights to reading the New Testament but will inspire you to live as followers of “the Way” and let others “hear the Way” from you.
—Sonia Knight, Resources Manager, Adventist Media Network
