EXTRA: A New Review of The Evangelical Imagination
In which I feel so seen ....
It was inevitable, as one friend put it, that my book and Russell Moore’s latest—which came out close to one another and deal with the same topic in somewhat similar ways—would end up being reviewed together.
Here is that review.
I am sharing it with you, readers, because it really gets me. It sees me, in fact, in ways I wasn’t able to see myself and what I was doing in my book. More importantly, it sees this moment in the church better than I did, too.
I’m grateful to Daniel K. Williams (an important author himself, in my view) and Christian Scholar’s Review, for such a thorough and penetrating reviewessay. You can read it here:
https://christianscholars.com/two-visions-for-an-evangelical-reformation/
This is one of those reviews that offers much on its own—apart from the books it critiques. It is well worth the read on its own.
"Prior and Moore acknowledge that the evangelical crisis is massive. But the gospel is greater still." Excellent review.
What a good reminder and excellent summary and commentary of some of the most important parts of the book. And this, “The remedy for all this, Prior suggests, is to have the imagination to see past the trappings of our culture and to experience Christ: “to be caught up with Christ, in Christ” and to “be filled with a love” that is “powerful enough to love that person we would otherwise despise. It is to love the kingdom of God more than all the kingdoms of this world. It is to count all human empires as dirt, all our pretty platforms and performances as dung.” 🥹🥹 That chapter. Shew!