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Talk about a rush job! I don't think I've ever seen a published book with more typos -- not spellcheck typos, but missing words, incorrect word order and just plain weird stuff. I don't think that the responsive format was as useful as it could be. Either an author agreed with the other and then wrote his own mini-chapter on the topic, or he disagreed and did not give very full support for his disagreement. More back and forth might have been more productive as well: give the original author a chance to speak to the rebuttal points if needed. For those on the McLaren trail (e.g. me), this book was a disappointment. McLaren did not come up with any new material for this book that he hasn't been saying all along through the New Kind of Christian series and again more fully in A Generous Orthodoxy. I'm not really sure who the intended audience was, but no matter who the book is meant for, there are better books they could be reading.

2023-01-07 00:35