ex-preacher

I have the read the book and agree with other comments - reading this book is like watching a fight between a trained professional in his prime and an out-of-shape amateur (who happens to be the father of the fighter). Sad. I think BOyd should pick on someone his own size. Incidentally, Boyd is in hot water in the evangelical community because of his views on open theism.

Colander of Truth

"But 4 stars are deducted because of the troublesome chapters 1,4-7,11,13-17,19-22,24-25. That's almost 60% of the book! The problems stem from the author's first book, Trinity & Process, with its distinctively Liberal Processistic Philosophy approach to understanding Jesus and the Bible. These neo-liberal, non-evangelical presuppositions (interpretive filters) permeate the author's worldview and cast many doubts about crucial matters like an Inerrant Bible without mistakes, the Nature and Attributes of God, how to interpret key Bible passages, the afterlife, the nature of the Future and God's knowledge of it, and how evil plays itself out in a Good God's world. The author gets these critical areas almost 100% wrong,heterodox,aberrant."
-One star reviewer in link.


Uh, yeah, I believe a "consensus of opinions" finds it is "patently obvious" that the Bible is Inerrant and without mistakes either.

Maybe we should paste in reviews generated from the post modernism text generator. Go here.

Colander of Truth

I'll bet Dad will get his last laugh. He'll whisper some gem in his boy's ear on his deathbed.

ex-idaho

luvluv, my girlfriends family gave me the book for xmas. I read as much as I could stomach (about half). It is utter garbage. The author uses his "liberal" perspective to distort passages to a point that he believe sense can be made. The evangelicals do the same thing but usually in the reverse.

The authors claim that his father is an atheist I find very hard to believe. Either the father is unfamiliar with the term or the author is lying. He states in the very first reply that he has not worldview or belief but that he only knows what he dosen't believe. That is a belive in itself. I would wager that the father is like so many others, he really just hasn't given it much thought at all.