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Recovering Eden: The Gospel According to Ecclesiastes (Gospel According to the Old Testament) Paperback – March 7, 2014

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Ecclesiastes shows a frank, unafraid familiarity with transparency, beauty, and ugliness. Eswines study helps us address these topics boldly ourselves and grounds them in the person and work of Jesus.
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The Gospel According to the Old Testament series illuminates the good news of our Savior in the Old Testament books. Here you will find thoughtful, Christ-focused theology at an accessible level.

Recovering Eden

The Gospel According to Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes shows a frank, unafraid familiarity with transparency, beauty, and ugliness. Eswine’s study helps us address these topics boldly ourselves and grounds them in the person and work of Jesus.

What do people say about this series?

  • 'Written at a thoughtful but popular level.' —D. A. Carson
  • 'Like manna in the desert.' —Sinclair Ferguson

  • 'A tremendous resource.' —Tim Keller

  • 'An important series.' —Philip Graham Ryken

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In Recovering Eden, Zack Eswine has provided a pastorally poetic guide to the endlessly “wild and strange wonder called Ecclesiastes.” He reliably reminds the reader that a search for life’s significance begins with a trustworthy God filling life with meaning throughout life’s seasons and ends with this One who makes all things new in Jesus Christ. Be sure to reflect on the weighty questions Zack provides after each chapter. They offer the reader a timely opportunity to respond to Zack’s thoughtful observations of an ultimately hopeful text. -- Donald Guthrie,

While very few of us are professional philosophers who deal with the abstract problems of meaning, all of us are daily dealing with the functional problems of meaning. We all want our lives to count for something. Every one of us craves meaning--it's human to yearn for it. The question is, where are we looking to find it: work, pleasure, our children, our spouse, beauty, sex, our possessions, our position, our reputation, our accomplishments? What are you depending on to make life worth living? What keeps you going? Ecclesiastes won't allow for pat answers to these deeply existential questions--it forces us to look beneath the surface. C.S. Lewis once wrote, "Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." This is, in short, the message of Ecclesiastes. The writer of Ecclesiastes is not interested in pious platitudes and theory. He's not some ivory tower pontificator. Rather, he’s slugging his way through life on the ground desperately looking for something to make him feel alive, something that will satisfy, something to give him the meaning he longs for. Ecclesiastes is an honest look at life without God. It explores the ways people try to save themselves apart from God and in doing so, it blows our cover -- it removes our fig leaves. It leads us to the Abyss and drives us to despair. It reveals the meaninglessness of life "under the sun" and causes us to cry out "Who will rescue me?" My friend Zack Eswine helps us to see that all of the answers that the writer of Ecclesiastes (and us) seek for “under the sun” come to us from “above the sun”, in the person and work of Jesus. Reading Ecclesiastes in the light of Christ's finished work tells us that ultimate meaning is found in God through Christ who defeats death and brings meaning to life. Jesus subjected himself to the curse of a meaningless world in order to free us from it. For those who see no end to their laborious search for meaning and satisfaction Jesus promises rest: “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Apart from Jesus, we are left in despair, crushed by the words "Everything is meaningless." Only in Christ are we freed from the bondage of vanity. Christ has completed our labors, he's secured our meaning, he's rescued us from futility. Thank you Zack for reminding me of this. I keep forgetting. -- Tullian Tchividjian, Pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and author of One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

About the Author

Zack Eswine (B.SW., Ball State University; M.Div., Covenant Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Regent University) is Lead Pastor of Riverside Church in St. Louis. He formerly served as Assistant Professor of Homiletics and the Director for the Doctor of Ministry program at Covenant Theological Seminary and was a campus minister with the Navigators.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ P&R Publishing; Gospel According to the Old Testament edition (March 7, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1596384689
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1596384682
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 0.8 x 8.7 inches
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Zack Eswine (Ph.D.), is an award winning author who writes about the significance of an ordinary life and ministry in Jesus. With a poetic and personal style Zack seeks to pay attention to the questions, desires and circumstances of the human heart as we wrestle with who Jesus is and discern what his life has to do with ours. Zack serves as a pastor in Webster Groves Missouri where he and his family live. Check out his website at www.zackeswine.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars God’s Philosophy Book
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2022
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God wrote one philosophy book, Ecclesiastes! How does fallen man (whether saved or unsaved) live “Under the Sun”, in a Fallen World? Ecclesiastes has many of the answers. And, it preps the way for the True Wise Man - Jesus!! Our hope is in Christ, not how successful or unsuccessful we navigate a fallen world. Ecclesiastes points to Him
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Wesley D. Vanfleet
5.0 out of 5 stars An honest journey towards Eden
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2019
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I picked up this book at a time where I found out my dad is dying from lung cancer, our house is falling apart, and things under the sun continue to disappoint. Eswine has created a pastoral prose through a unique book of the Bible. Unique because it is straightforward and gives people the ability to say, “I hate life but love God.”

This book gave me the refreshing gift of slowing down, perusing the gifts of God, thanking him for those gifts, but also lamenting that those gifts never last. The book is also just like the other 65 books of the Bible, as Eswine shows, in that it’s primary message is about the Good Shepherd. This book is incredible rich, beautiful, and accessible.
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W. Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars ... and this book "Recovering Eden" is well written and easy to read
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2017
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Ecclesiastes and Job are on the top part of favorites and this book "Recovering Eden" is well written and easy to read. A lot good applicable writing of things that help clarify how life can be enjoyed, but it is not something a number of people wish to hear. Give it a try, and maybe you might find a better understanding what it takes of contented.
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Joseph W. Smith III
4.0 out of 5 stars A very good book on a very great one
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2014
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The many Bible buffs with a special fondness for Ecclesiastes will certainly enjoy Eswine's brand-new exploration of its themes -- latest in P&R's "Gospel According to the Old Testament" series. Eswine does a particularly brilliant job of unifying this challenging book -- and connecting it to teachings in the rest of Scripture, particularly those in the New Testament and the life of Christ. His principal thrust: the Preacher's message is that there isn't really any "gain" in this place "under the sun" except in a few humble activities such as work, food and family -- that these were God's gifts in Eden, and we should be content with them in this life too. I really enjoyed this book and found it exceptionally helpful in many of the Preacher's more difficult passages. Now if we could just find someone to do Song of Solomon for this series!
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Keith Welch
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read for the soul: explaining the scriptures piece by piece
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2018
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Great read for those stuck in the mundane and 'normal' and shows Gods glorious grace in the midst of our solemness and despair. I will likely come back to this book now once per year just to let the truths of Ecclesiastes refresh my heart.
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Joshua McIntyre
5.0 out of 5 stars Best book in this series
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2014
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Maybe the best book in this series. Everyone of the is a gem but this one grabbed hold of me and brought a reality to faith that is so often lacking in books and sermons full of platitudes and wishful thinking. This book made me sigh in relief as I came to the understanding that God is really really real and wants us to be as well. Also the sufficiency of the gospel for this world we live in was powerfully portrayed.
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Blake L. Farmer II
5.0 out of 5 stars A new look at Ecclesiastes.
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2021
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A fantastic book look @ Ecclesiastes. Very informative & another perspective.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The goal of a dissatisfying good life
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2015
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We long for the perfection of the Garden of Eden ... and struggle when the good life doesn't satisfy. Eswine shows that that underlying dissatisfaction should point us to the Shepherd, who at the end of time will make all things new: heaven will be a perfect Eden. Excellent and very readable book exploring the themes of Ecclesiastes and the wisdom of Solomon.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Book!
Reviewed in Germany on July 25, 2021
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Awkward OT Book looked at form a different perspective reveals stunning, real-life approved concepts to improve understanding and practice of ones walk in the faith of Jesus Christ!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Qohelet is alive and well, it's not all meaningless.
Reviewed in Australia on November 7, 2018
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I loved the positive insights about the book Ecclesiastes. The author wrote it in a refreshing style and yet did not lack on appropriate references to fellow theologians. It was very helpful for my theological reflection on this book in my current study course.
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