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A prophetic challenge to the Western church. The Christian faith is always subversive to the dominant world view. Jesus overturned every assumption which stopped people experiencing the living reality of God - the heart of truth. Sadly, the Western world has reduced "truth" to the merely rational, and then discarded it as inadequate. In Africa, and other parts of the world where God's truth has never been straitjacketed in this way, the church is characterised by a joy now absent in the West. Western culture has limited what we can believe and receive. Can we: Burst free from this restrictive secular framework? Learn not only to know truth, but to feel it, and live it? Live our faith in such a way that it becomes real to those around us? Alison Morgan shows that Jesus lived free from the culturally imposed norms which restrict our understanding of truth. Examining church history, prophecy past and present, the state of our culture and of the church today, and drawing on personal experience and the experience of others, Alison blends analysis and imagination, history and poetry in this prophetic challenge to Western Christians.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Recommended by a friend, I am enthralled by this sensitively written and hugely insightful book. Cutting through centuries of man-made overlay on the most dramatic and radical event in history - the first coming of Jesus, moving on to examine how and how far we have drifted from those early heady days, concluding with the inevitable conclusion that without a life lived in the almost constant presence of the Holy Spirit, the Christian walk (in the way that God intends it) is impossible.
(By the way, Alison Morgan is the author, not Martin Cavender, who at one stage was credited by Amazon for doing so - he wrote the forward).
Copiously annotated, full bibliography supplied for those that want such things, it is scalpel like in its truth and poetic in its style, making it hard to categorise. Beautifully structured, and for a non-academic like me, makes my heart beat faster, and provides a Wow! on nearly every page.
I call it a scary book because it has the potential to be life-changing, if one dares pick up the challenge, and by saying it's about God I mean the Triune Deity of the Christian Faith.
In writing this review I almost feel as if I'm clumsily pulling apart a rose to try to describe beauty to you. The Wild Gospel is an intelligent, accessible, encouraging, powerful expose of all that the Christian walk could and should be.
I humbly recommend it to all believers who don't think they've 'arrived' and if read with an open mind, to all non-believers who will be amazed to find that God is much bigger, deeper, wider, etc, and credible, and available, than they ever imagined. The Wild Gospel: Bringing Truth to Life
(By the way, Alison Morgan is the author, not Martin Cavender, who at one stage was credited by Amazon for doing so - he wrote the forward).
Copiously annotated, full bibliography supplied for those that want such things, it is scalpel like in its truth and poetic in its style, making it hard to categorise. Beautifully structured, and for a non-academic like me, makes my heart beat faster, and provides a Wow! on nearly every page.
I call it a scary book because it has the potential to be life-changing, if one dares pick up the challenge, and by saying it's about God I mean the Triune Deity of the Christian Faith.
In writing this review I almost feel as if I'm clumsily pulling apart a rose to try to describe beauty to you. The Wild Gospel is an intelligent, accessible, encouraging, powerful expose of all that the Christian walk could and should be.
I humbly recommend it to all believers who don't think they've 'arrived' and if read with an open mind, to all non-believers who will be amazed to find that God is much bigger, deeper, wider, etc, and credible, and available, than they ever imagined. The Wild Gospel: Bringing Truth to Life
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Quite simply the most gripping and readable account of the Christian faith I have read in many years. Alison Morgan brings in part biographical insight as to her own exploration for truth, leading her to a personal faith, but one based firmly upon reason and intellect as well as experience. She brilliantly places the historic Jesus in context showing a real understanding of history and culture. She then relates this to the present day with many insightful challenges as how we should relate teh Gospel for today.
A really good read, first published in 2004 and now in its third run with a commendation by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The author may like to tidy up some references to the new millenium now we are well into 2010 if the book is to have forth re-print.
David Bickersteth
A really good read, first published in 2004 and now in its third run with a commendation by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The author may like to tidy up some references to the new millenium now we are well into 2010 if the book is to have forth re-print.
David Bickersteth
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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The Wild Gospel: Bringing Truth to Life
I bought this book (by Alison Morgan) as a "set book" for a church bookclub.
Found it mindblowing in the vividness with which she exposes new depths and resonances in the life of Jesus Christ. An utter revolutionary! Loving, yes, caring, sure, but so tough, so determined, so clever, so different, confrontational, saviour of the powerless, scourge of the strong ...
Read it several times, then gave it away when halfway through it on another pass. (Plenty of meat - not Revd. Dr. Alison Morgan for nothing.)
So now am buying two replacements. Recommended - enjoy!
I bought this book (by Alison Morgan) as a "set book" for a church bookclub.
Found it mindblowing in the vividness with which she exposes new depths and resonances in the life of Jesus Christ. An utter revolutionary! Loving, yes, caring, sure, but so tough, so determined, so clever, so different, confrontational, saviour of the powerless, scourge of the strong ...
Read it several times, then gave it away when halfway through it on another pass. (Plenty of meat - not Revd. Dr. Alison Morgan for nothing.)
So now am buying two replacements. Recommended - enjoy!
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