Mark Roncace. Holy Hilarity: A Funny Study of Genesis (Macon, GA: Smyth and Helwys, 2016). I was a big fan of Mark Roncace’s previous book God’s Story. I also very much enjoyed Raw Revelation (albeit with some reservations). So when he offered to send me a review copy of his latest popular study, Holy Hilarity, I welcomed the opportunity. […]
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83. God’s Story: A Conversation with Mark Roncace
When I was growing up in the church, my earliest encounters with the Bible came in the terms of the Sunday school flannelgraph, a rather primitive technology in which Bible stories were acted out with pieces of fabric stuck to a felt board. At that time, the Bible seemed like a disjointed set of isolated stories, each […]
On Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: A Review of God’s Story
Mark Roncace, God’s Story: The Bible Epic from Abraham to Exile (Pittsburgh, PA: Hartline Literary Agency, 2015). You might think you know the old German fairy tales told by the Brothers Grimm in their 1812 collection Children’s and Household Tales: Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and so on. But if you read those […]
37. Mark Roncace on Raw Revelation
Christians believe the Bible is God’s revelation to humanity. As we read in 2 Timothy 3:16, “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness”. There certainly are passages of the Bible that invoke in the reader a sense of inspiring, and perhaps even inspired, literature. One thinks, for example, of […]
Mark Roncace, Provocateur
Yesterday I published a review of Mark Roncace’s book Raw Revelation. Roncace promptly replied via email and by his permission I’m printing that reply here followed by some comments of my own. Let’s start by hearing from Mark Roncace: “Couple of thoughts: In general, I think your critiques are essentially on target. You write, “I […]
How raw the revelation? A review of Mark Roncace’s “Raw Revelation”
Mark Roncace, Raw Revelation: The Bible They Never Tell You About (North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2012). Mark Roncace believes Christians have been “cooking the good book” for way too long. What he means is that they read it selectively, they avoid the plain meaning of texts, they seek a safe, compliant, and easily digestible spiritual meal. […]
