This week “Unbelievable” with Justin Brierley featured an engaging discussion on God and wrath between Brian Zahnd and Joshua Ryan Butler. I think highly of both Zahnd and Butler. They are both learned, articulate, and irenic. (By the way, you might want to pick up Butler’s new book The Pursuing God. It’s getting rave reviews. And […]
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Divine Violence Revisited: My Response to Joshua Ryan Butler on “Unbelievable”
I just listened to the latest episode of “Unbelievable” with Justin Brierley which consisted of an interview with Joshua Ryan Butler and Jeff Cook. (You can listen to it here.) (You might recall that I recently reviewed Butler’s book The Skeletons in God’s Closet in three parts: part 1, part 2, part 3). The episode focused […]
The Hope of Holy War? A Review of The Skeletons in God’s Closet (Part 3)
Joshua Ryan Butler. The Skeletons in God’s Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War. Thomas Nelson, 2014. This is part 3 of my review of The Skeletons in God’s Closet. For part 2 click here. Part 3 begins with the story of Rachel, a congregant at Butler’s church who […]
The Surprise of Judgment? A Review of The Skeletons in God’s Closet (Part 2)
Joshua Ryan Butler. The Skeletons in God’s Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War. Thomas Nelson, 2014. This is part 2 of my review of The Skeletons in God’s Closet. For part 1, click here. The second section of the book turns to the topic of judgment and […]
The Mercy of Hell? A Review of The Skeletons in God’s Closet (Part 1)
Joshua Ryan Butler. The Skeletons in God’s Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War. Thomas Nelson, 2014. The title was the first thing that drew me to this book. One hears a lot about the skeletons in God’s closet, so a book that takes the topic by the proverbial […]
