if you follow me on Twitter or Fb you know that I finished Sabbath today and enjoyed it very much, good reminders about this very important practice which is far less about doing than being…
So I put it in the finished pile (currently in an almost empty suitcase) and, since I’m all packed for the Bosnia trip and just hanging around waiting for the take off, er… drive off time to arrive, I picked up Justification and began reading.
This book is a response to a response and since I like that kind of thing and I like the writing of N.T. Wright (or Tom Wright, who is bishop of Durham of the Church of England and a prolific writer – the publishers seem to divide between N.T. and Tom depending on the scholarly/ more popular tenor of the volume and who they are going to market to), I am anticipating this book more than any I have looked forward to in a while. In the Introduction (I am a firm believer that one should read the introductions to books) the Bishop does not disappoint me. Here is my first qoute from the book:
“Part of my plea in this book is for the Spirit’s work to be taken seriously in reltion both to Christian faith itself and to the way in which that faith is “active through love.” (pp.10-11)
This resonates with me deeply because the work of the Spirit is so seldom described in thoughtful way and so often ignored altogether by the branches of the body of Jesus followers who are in, what I describe as the post-enlightenment, rational, modernist mode of thinking instead of feeling and losing a beautiful part of what God designs: thus faith and God are put in a box and some of what He wants for us gets lost… well, now… if that’s not a rambling rabbit trail, I don’t know what is…
more rambling later
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