Years of experience has made me a wise man. If you are feeling down, and not even Baywatch seems to help
- Put a lot of Tobasco sauce in your work colleagues tea
- Flick bogies at old people
- Make remarks to insecure teenagers about the spots covering their faces
- Regularly throw out the metaphorical baby with the bathwater.
- Visit a conservative Christian friend's flat, and swap all of their John Piper books with Funk, Ehrman and Lüdemann volumes.
- Take only the King James 1611 Version to your 'emergent' bible studies, and use the word 'repenteth' a lot.
- And read Douglas Campbell's brilliant, I repeat brilliant tome, The Deliverance of God. Loren Rossen has written an impressive review here, and I can only agree with his enthusiasm. I think it is the most important book to have been published since Sanders' Paul and Palestinian Judaism. I had the pleasure of meeting Douglas last week and we had a good chat about his book and a forthcoming project which will also be a huge interest. A great guy. A worldview shaking book. Though this sort of thing is often said, I mean it most seriously: This one should become compulsory reading for any Pauline aficionados. More from me about this one anon.
5 comments:
hey chris,
can you tell us more in what ways this book (The Deliverance of God) can change our aproach to evangelism ?
great question. His approach notes sociological studies which emphasise the importance of relationships in evangelism, of people partaking in community - rather than simply ebing "preached unto".
"The metaphorical baby"
Hmmm, so you're saying the nativity story is pesher or midrash?
Hahaha!
Chris and Chrisendom readers, I have tried to collate all of the early reviews of Campbell's book at Reviews of Douglas Campbell's The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul
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