Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile
by Rob Bell, Don Golden
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Author: Don Golden, Rob BellEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN: 0310275024
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Zondervan
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Book Review: Liberation theology 101 for the internet generation
Summary: 4 Stars
This book provides a good, very accessible summary of the Bible and its message from a "liberation" perspective. It tells the story of Israel in terms of slavery, liberation, and the temptations of empire leading to a new exile and slavery in Bablyon. The authors see Jesus as a different form of liberation from the Roman Empire, a liberation that is intended to escape the pitfalls of worldly empire under Solomon.
Fast forwarding to the present, Bell and Colden have a blunt message for Americans: the United States in an empire whose actions must be seen in parallel with Egypt, Babylon, and Rome. We're the bad guys, and Jesus wants to save us Christians.
This is tolerably close to my own reading of the "big picture" in the Bible, so it didn't strike me as novel (and I found some minor errors along the way). For many religious Americans, I suspect it would be shocking, even scandalous. All the more reason to read it!
Much of the text is written in the style of a sermon. If you're reading the book, it often helps to imagine it being spoken because
there are sentence fragments
with pauses
and repetition,
saying the same thing twice,
before Bell and Colden move to a new idea.
You might enjoy that style, or you might find it annoying. Just know that it's an important part of the book. It also makes the text a lot shorter than the number of pages might lead you to expect.
The book's production values are clearly meant to be modern, even "hip" or "cool" (to use two unhip, uncool words), but I found them distracting. The book has green-edged pages and some green pages. The font is distracting, even hard to read. There's a pseudo-font that the authors use throughout the book - - look at the picture of the cover, and you'll see, I'm sure, that the white blocks spell out the title of the book in this pseudo-font.
This could be a great book for the right audience. I'd love to see how it would go over in a high school religious education classroom.
Summary of Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile
There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building.Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty.
This is a book about those two numbers.
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