Solly
January 12th 2004, 12:05 PM
Buy it, read it, love it.
Serious; though not a big book (less than 200 pages) it's one of those seminal books that come around from time to time (my last one was Richard Lovelace's Dynamics of Spiritual Life).
It's all about operating from weakness, not strength; giving up the modern church's fad with power and able-to-do-ness, and sitting easy with modern society, and instead being counter cultural, counter intuitive, counter active. A good scriptural foundation to her ideas in Paul's theology of the cross, plus a heavy leaning on the work of Jacques Ellul; this is her re-written PhD thesis which was done under the supervision of John Howard Yoder. Dawn is part of the ELCA as far as I can see, and broadly holds to conservative theology, so no howlers so far - for instance, while drawing upon the work of Walter Wink on Principalities and Powers, she is highly critical of his anti-scripturalism, and heterodox theology.
Serious; though not a big book (less than 200 pages) it's one of those seminal books that come around from time to time (my last one was Richard Lovelace's Dynamics of Spiritual Life).
It's all about operating from weakness, not strength; giving up the modern church's fad with power and able-to-do-ness, and sitting easy with modern society, and instead being counter cultural, counter intuitive, counter active. A good scriptural foundation to her ideas in Paul's theology of the cross, plus a heavy leaning on the work of Jacques Ellul; this is her re-written PhD thesis which was done under the supervision of John Howard Yoder. Dawn is part of the ELCA as far as I can see, and broadly holds to conservative theology, so no howlers so far - for instance, while drawing upon the work of Walter Wink on Principalities and Powers, she is highly critical of his anti-scripturalism, and heterodox theology.