Tuesday, January 13, 2009
A blurb!
Oooh! I just noticed this endorsement of my book from Bill Leonard, who is the Dean of the Wake Forest Divinity School...
“In this fascinating and troubling book Mark Osler asks not ‘what would Jesus do?’ but ‘what might we have done to Jesus had he shown up here and now?’ By linking the ‘passion of the Christ’ with contemporary (Texas) death penalty law, Mark Osler forces us to reread the Jesus story as it confronts our society and ourselves.”
—Bill J. Leonard, Wake Forest University
It was kind of a jolt just to think that Bill Leonard read the book, given that he is the at the forefront of Baptist education and theology, and has written 15 books himself.
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"troubling"? So you're saying it doesn't have a happy ending? This isn't going to be a downer like Thomas Hardy novel, is it?
Congrats!
Congrats!
# posted by 
: 1:50 PM
: 1:50 PM
In your book, does Jesus die? Is that why it was troubling? Or did he win his habeas and the guy is troubled that you departed from the Bible?
Oh, like executing the Son of God isn't troubling in that goofball "Episcoplian" faith you adhere to, IPLG? And LDT... er, no, he didn't win his habeas.
Proof that AEDPA is evil -- even Jesus can't win on habeas!
Episcopalianism is not a goofball faith. It's a hard-drinking faith. Just ask Prof. Guinn.
Episcopalianism is not a goofball faith. It's a hard-drinking faith. Just ask Prof. Guinn.
Sadly, the book is not yet out (unless Amazon lies to me). Most of the blurbs come from ARCs sent out early.
Lane--
I guess I should know this, but... what is an "ARC?"
The book should be out and about in the next few weeks.
I guess I should know this, but... what is an "ARC?"
The book should be out and about in the next few weeks.
Advanced Reader Copy. Basically, production markups of books that go out to preview readers, like librarian/mothers that then foist them off on their children.
Yes, Jesus dies in the Episcopal Church. A glorious death. With lots of candles and incense.
Worse yet, we don't even have cookies and coffee on Good Friday, we just leave and feel all contemplative.
But he comes back. Every year. And we have lots of cookies to make up for Lent.
And maybe this is why its hard for me to take Good Friday in the way its intended. Yes, its bad the Jesus dies. But, unlike the people around him, I KNOW he's coming back. Its in the Bible.
Probably a better topic for a Sunday Religious War posting.
Worse yet, we don't even have cookies and coffee on Good Friday, we just leave and feel all contemplative.
But he comes back. Every year. And we have lots of cookies to make up for Lent.
And maybe this is why its hard for me to take Good Friday in the way its intended. Yes, its bad the Jesus dies. But, unlike the people around him, I KNOW he's coming back. Its in the Bible.
Probably a better topic for a Sunday Religious War posting.
# posted by : 3:20 PM
: 3:20 PM
Noah's ARC. Its a big boat that delivers galley copies to reviewers and "opinion leaders."
Kind of like the bookmobile for religious books.
Kind of like the bookmobile for religious books.
# posted by : 3:22 PM
: 3:22 PM
Noah's ARC. Its a big boat that delivers galley copies to reviewers and "opinion leaders."
Kind of like the bookmobile for religious books.
Kind of like the bookmobile for religious books.
# posted by : 3:22 PM
: 3:22 PM
And the LORD said to Noah, go and bring me two of every kind of book, excepting the "Left Behind" series, which thou art to leave behind, for I am the LORD, and I am an ironic God.
And Noah did go and bring to the ARC two of every kind of book, except the "Left Behind" series, which did perish in the torrent of rain that the LORD did send.
And Noah did go and bring to the ARC two of every kind of book, except the "Left Behind" series, which did perish in the torrent of rain that the LORD did send.
The Episcopal Church often opposes the death penalty. There was a letter to the editor in the Washington Post on Sunday from the Episcopal bishops of Maryland and DC opposing the DP. And the Episcopal leaders in Virginia have opposed it, too.
# posted by : 8:34 PM
: 8:34 PM
Uh, yeah, IPLG, it's DEFINITELY a Thomas Hardy ending. I think that's where Hardy got it from . . .
# posted by : 8:35 PM
: 8:35 PM
Lane, thank you for explaining that. The Left Behind books should be left behind.
# posted by : 7:20 AM
: 7:20 AM
I heard they crucified Jesus because he was messing with the cable television at night.
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