{"id":1691,"date":"2020-09-23T17:41:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T16:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyrelines.energion.net\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2020-09-23T17:41:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T16:41:44","slug":"divine-self-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyrelines.energion.net\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"Divine self-investment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tripp Fuller, best known for the Homebrewed Christianity podcast, has written his first academic book in \u201cDivine Self-Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Christology\u201d<\/a>, which as a long time supporter of the podcast I just had to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob Cornwall<\/a> and Jay McDaniel<\/a> have already written excellent reviews of the book from their particular academic positions, so I see no need to repeat their thoughts, beyond agreeing that this is a book displaying deep scholarship. Tripp masterfully explores pairs of similar but subtly contrasting Christologies in successive chapters, weaving his way through the subtleties and coming up with an approach to a harmonisation in each case, with a final overall construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish I\u2019d had it on my editing pile, as repeatedly Tripp comes up with some facet of Christology which I\u2019d have liked to engage with in more depth, but he sensibly went with a publisher more known for academic titles than I work with. That\u2019s where I\u2019d like to direct my main response, though; I generally find myself editing books which are more in the \u201cpopular theology\u201d bracket, similar to Tripp\u2019s earlier book on Jesus in the \u201cHomebrewed Guide\u201d series (and I recommend that unhesitatingly as well). As Jay McDaniel remarks, this is not a \u201cpopular theology\u201d book, it\u2019s an academic one. Viewed from the point of view of an editor who is always looking to make books accessible to the maximum audience, this is not, to my mind, wholly beyond the lay reader; Tripp has, even when doing serious academic work, an engaging and easy style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admittedly, had I been editing it, I might have argued for maybe a dozen additional footnotes as concepts arose which I felt the reader in the pews might have some difficulty with (or difficulty in appreciating the subtlety of), but that is relatively few in a book of this depth. With that very slight warning, I can unhesitatingly recommend reading it if you have any interest in developing a robust open and relational Christology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tripp Fuller, best known for the Homebrewed Christianity podcast, has written his first academic book in \u201cDivine Self-Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Christology\u201d, which as a long time supporter of the podcast I just had to read. Bob Cornwall and Jay McDaniel have already written excellent reviews of the book from their particular academic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyrelines.energion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyrelines.energion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyrelines.energion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyrelines.energion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyrelines.energion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eyrelines.energion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/eyrelines.energion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyrelines.energion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyrelines.energion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyrelines.energion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}