After Living Out of Control, the current book under discussion here, I will take on God Looks Like Jesus: A Renewed Approach to Understanding God by Gregory A. Boyd and M. Scott Boren (Herald Press, 2025). To those who may balk at buying another book I quote Petrarch: Wear the old coat; buy the new book. This is one that should stimulate theological thought and discussion. It’s not academic or scholarly, but, of course, the authors are scholars.
Jonathan Merritt says this about the book: “An invitation to fall in love with a God who looks more like a crucified savior than a celestial dictator.” Kathy Escobar: “Humility, wisdom, and lived experience that challenges our faith and calls us to practice following Jesus more fully, more freely, more expansively.”
However, as glowing as those and other recommendations are, A God Who Looks Like Jesus is bound to create some consternation among especially conservative Christian readers. For example, how are we to interpret the Old Testament “texts of terror” in light of Jesus as the perfect revelation of God’s character? Or is he?
So order the book and watch for my review of the Introduction and first chapter (The One Eternal Word) in two weeks.
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