So, I've finished The Colours of God and have gone back to a book I had started reading a couple of times before (only this time I'm determined to finish it!). It's called Kingdom, Grace, Judgment- Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus and is written by a guy called Robert Farrar Capon.
http://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Grace-Judgment-Vindication-Parables/dp/0802839495
My memories are that this book is awesome (although I'm not sure why I haven't finished it, maybe for the same reasons I have never finished the Divine Conspiracy...?!). It's one of those books that has been recommended or mentioned in a bibliography by a lot of authors I respect and love. So...
'The history of Christian thought is riddled with virtualism. "Sure", we have said, "the Lamb of God has taken away all the sins of the world." But then we have proceeded to give the impression that unless people did something special to activate it, his forgiveness would remain only virtually, not actually, theirs. Think of some things we have said to people. We have told them that unless they confessed to a priest, or had the sacrifice of the mass applied specifically to their case, or accepted Jesus in the correct denominational terms- or hit the sawdust trail, did penance, cried their eyes out, or straightened up and flew right- the seed, who is the Word present everywhere in all his forgiving power, might just as well not really have been sown'.
What do we think?
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