The Mantra of Jabez: Break on Though to the Other Side
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1885767889 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 60 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jammin' with Jabez Labarum The good folks at Credenda/Agenda, a journal of Reformed theology and opinion, have issued a line of parodies skewering various forms of silliness that have overtaken the Evangelical Protestant landscape. Any who have read Credenda/Agenda know it is sometimes caustic, usually challenging, and always Calvinist. This series shows they can also be extremely funny - shattering the common image of Reformed folk as people whom God has predestined to be humorless. P. germaine said A Jump start. This had to have gotten others to think. We jump on the bandwagon of "easy" blessings. Never having read a parody of Christian literature -- this is the answer for those who refuse to read a SERIOUS critque of "questionable" books. thanks.. True premise, poor delivery Lawrence G. Farlow There's not doubt in my mind that Wilkinson's Prayer of Jabez is on theologically shakey ground (which is why I was interested in reading this book). However, so is the smarmy sarcasm of this author in response to Wilkinson's errors. Clearly from scripture we are to confront false teaching but it is to always be tempered by the fruit of the Spirit. Sarcasm is not listed in my Bible as part of the fruit of the spirit. Straightforward apologetics is certainl
-- Rene Descartes“I like my father because he makes me.” -- Eric Jones“The Mantra of Jabez made me happy to be an American.” -- Martin Bucer. This is the most profound parody since, since okay, I never read a parody
Each chapter of the original is turned inside out so that we can really see what's being said. Get this parody for the laughs; get it for something greater.. Wilkinson told us to be "gimpers" for God; Jones shows us how to be kippers for God. In this parody the conservative Christian author allows humor to reveal the more ridiculous assumptions driving the original book. Bruce Wilkinson's best-selling book, The Prayer of Jabez, is so popular with Evangelicals it just had to be bad. Though the parody is rather ruthless in its humor, it is not hopelessly cynical just for the sake of mockery. It points to a more constructive vision, a vision of Christianity's inherent riches of truth, beauty, and goodness that the original Jabez book passively trivializes
He is co-author of Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth. Douglas M. Jones is a fellow of philosophy at New St. Andrews College, Moscow, Idaho and senior editor of Credenda/Agenda magazine.