My main aim for today's sojourn was to get this book, which we have sorta decided would be the next book for book club (after our 5 month recess!).
Here's the blurb for the book, written by the same author of rather radical bible translation, The Message :
"Writing in the conversational style that he is well known for, Peterson boldly sweeps out the misunderstandings that clutter conversations on spiritual theology and refurnishes the subject only with what is essential. As Peterson shows, spiritual theology, in order to be at once biblical and meaningful, must remain sensitive to ordinary life, present the Christian gospel, follow the narrative of Scripture, and be rooted in the "fear of the Lord"—in short, spiritual theology must be about God and not about us. "
Peterson's books are always intriguing to read. I personally think he is on his way to becoming this century's C.S. Lewis. The fundamental scholarliness, erudition, married with a startlingly fresh and creative literary style (almost to the point of subversion), has strong echoes of the intellectual giant Lewis indeed. Together with "Christ Plays" above, I also bought two other books, "Long Obedience" and "Reversed Thunder". Looking forward to the two week vacation next month to read them! :)
It should be interesting to see what comes up during the book club discussion for this book. This would our fifth book (in our three years of existence) and quite different from the rest of the books. Actually, all our books are quite different from one another (the five of us take turns to choose), which I think reflects our different personalities. And of course our unstructured randomness. haha...
