Trinitarian Letters - Speakeasy Book Review

When I read the blurbs about this book I was very excited to get started reading it. The buzz indicated that it discussed the trinitarian relationship in a similar manner to books like Wm. Paul Young's The Shack - which is one of my favorites. In The Shack, the relationship between Father, Son and Holy Spirit is fluid, non-hierarchical - full of humor and love. While Trinitarian letters does support that view, it's not quite as enjoyable to read . Granted, The Shack is a novel and this book is a collection of short pieces on varying topics, but I find the style to be distracting and kind of over-the-top. Every page is peppered with exclamation points!!!! And statements in bold and/or italics to get the points across that the author wants to make (!!!).

I do agree very much with what Paul Kurts is saying in his discussions (including topics such as salvation, grace, whether or not a person can fall from grace, and what exactly Jesus was accomplishing with his work on the cross), that I want to be clear on. However, it reads like one of those crazy-religious-people websites that consist of pages of rants on a solid (usually aqua) color  background.

Points for enthusiasm, deductions for form.

The only theological issue I really have with the author's premise is that of 'adoption' into God's family. I understand that this term is used in Scripture and there is a long-held adherence to the idea that we had to be 'adopted' by God (I suppose adopted from being children of hell or the world, I guess). However, if I look at the parable of the prodigal son that Jesus tells, it would seem that the son never actually lost his sonship. The father welcomed him back into his house with open arms. There wasn't an 'adoption', there was just a homecoming. To me, this states that even if we lie down with the pigs and hang out with the devil, we are never actually disowned by God. The earth and everything in it belongs to the Lord whether or not we we acknowledge that or act like it.

Would I recommend this book? Maybe, if someone needed something to read that spoke emphatically about the grace of God and His unconditional, unfailing love. That truth is made abundantly clear in this book!!!! But it might not be the first book that I choose.

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