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As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I\u2019m doing some reading on table fellowship, and so I read my friend\u2019s, Craig Blomberg\u2019s, book called Contagious Holiness<\/a><\/em>. This maybe the most complete display of what the Bible says on meals.
\nThe book is a little more academically shaped than John Koenig\u2019s, but Craig\u2019s book does come round, in the last chp, to some sparkling vignettes of the impact of meals in the American Church.
\nNow here\u2019s the big question: How many of us have used the word \u201cinclusion\u201d when it comes to Jesus\u2019 practice of table fellowship? Now the kicker: How many of us have stopped there? Is the point of table fellowship inclusion or more than that? Put a little differently, just how \u201cmissional\u201d was Jesus\u2019 practice of table fellowship.
\nNow a brief on this book: it begins with the state of scholarship; it then trots its way through \u2014 in complete fashion \u2014 the whole Old Testament in sequential order, then he trots through the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha and then the Dead Sea Scrolls (almost nothing on the rabbis \u2014 sound history here because Craig knows that the rabbis are later than Jesus). Two chps on Jesus \u2014 good ones \u2014 and then a nice chp on practice today.
\nThe singular contributions Craig makes to the discussion are two-fold: first, he debunks the idea that the Greek-Roman symposium shaped the meals of Jesus. The evidence for this is thin and often overdrawn. Second, and most importantly, Craig makes a big point about Jesus\u2019 practice: inclusion is not enough to describe what Jesus accomplished. Jesus brings people to the table in order to become a \u201ccontagion of holiness.\u201d Repentance, etc..
\nThis isn\u2019t really a book review, and I do have issues here and there with both Craig\u2019s book and John Koenig\u2019s book on Tuesday, but that\u2019s for another setting.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"