The Mystery of Christ: … and Why We Don’t Get It
Overview
Widely recognized as a creative, insightful writer, Robert Farrar Capon offers still more of his uniquely provocative fare in The Mystery of Christ … and Why We Don’t Get It. This engaging book probes the meaning of salvation—peace, forgiveness, grace, reconciliation—spoken of in the New Testament as a “mystery.” Reminding his readers—sometimes in startling ways—that salvation is a gift rather than a transaction, Capon uses a variety of exchanges to drive home his point that salvation can be achieved not just through faith, but by active works. Along the way, he explores guilt, forgiveness, love, anger, romance, grief, spiritual contentment, the Incarnation, reincarnation, resurrection, and more—managing, in the process, to make salvation something fresh and new.
Top Highlights
“Jesus didn’t say he came to judge sinners, or even to turn them into non-sinners; he said he came to save them” (Page 18)
“The object of forgiveness is the restoration of relationship” (Page 34)
“The Angel cares only that we be in love with Love and, above all, in love with Death: it cares not a fig whether we are actually loving, comforting, or honoring to each other.” (Page 57)
“ is no—at least not if you read the Bible as a grace-filled whole instead of a divinely sanctioned sin sheet” (Page 49)
“which is not so much a sin as it is a failure of faith. Everything else has been taken care of” (Page 52)
- Title: The Mystery of Christ: … and Why We Don’t Get It
- Author: Robert Farrar Capon
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 1993
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Salvation; Mystery
- ISBNs: 9780802801210, 0802801218
- Resource ID: LLS:MYSTRYCHRSTWGTT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:41:09Z