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Title: Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace by Robert Farrar Capon ISBN: 0-8028-4222-4 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a book as surprising as life
Comment: We have clear conceptions of important abstractions that we have heard named, but not defined, since we were children. We live with misconceptions born while we wait to understand when we are able. Unfortunately, these images take on a life of their own, and crowd out any possibility of there ever being any real understanding.
Grace is one of those concepts. We hear the word repeated in sermon and song, we use it ourselves in characature. The image of what we think Grace is limits our access to its reality in our lives.
Enter this annoying book. Capon twists and tweaks and disturbs our sense of what is right and wrong. OUR sense.
Only when the shocking first section is trumped by the final section do we realize what is happening to us. Even though he warns us repeatedly along the way, and taunts us into dialogue.
I admit the central section merely annoyed me without enlightening me ... yet. Maybe I will get it later. Sacred adultary, a mafia hit, and a coffee hour give-and-take seem unlikely parables to expain Grace. It works. With style and grace. Anyone who has tried to live a life of faith honestly in the midst of the contradictions of life will feel this book resonate within their soul.
No wonder it is subtitled "Romance, Law, and the OUTRAGE of Grace."
Rating: 5
Summary: Grace, Grace and more GRACE
Comment: Capon continues to tantalise, entice and stimulate with this revised edition of Between Noon and Three. Capon captures the incredibly lavish Grace of God through a combination of wit, exegesis, and a carefully crafted story. This book is a real shock to the "grace-fearing spoilsport in every one of us". Capon confronts the menacing ugliness of legalism and drags it screaming into the light of the lavish Grace and Love of God. Capon expounds the Grace of God in such a way that one can't help salivating at the beauty of God made complete in his glorious Son. Throughout the novel one is continuously shouting AMEN (I Love you) to the Father who so loves his children that he does not give grace so that they will feel "much obliged" but rather extends totally free, unconditional, absolutely radical, all encompassing Grace. This is the grace for Dead people, and as Capon eloquently describes: all that is required of a dead body is to stink. I Love my God who makes the little, least, lost, last, losers and the DEAD - ALIVE! FREE and all this is GRATIS!
Rating: 5
Summary: A great theological novel on grace
Comment: This was my first Capon book and it made me fall in love with his writing and the way he uses stories and dialogue to expound the meaning of grace.
I think almost all of his books are on grace and that's because he has been captivated by the grace of God.
This novel, like most of his other books, may not be that simple a read but once you get what he's getting at, then you start to stand in awe of the amazingness of God's grace.
Capon is pretty lutheran in his view on law and gospel and it shows clearly in his books.
This particular novel is interesting in the way he tries to convey God's grace to us. It's about two people who are married but carries on with an affair together. This story is meant to outrage us, but Capon uses this storyline to show us that God's grace is like that. Despite the sins we do, He still loves us and accepts us in Christ.
Has Capon gone a bit far in illustrating grace to us? Well, i don't know. All i can say is that he's at least half right! A good book to read and ponder about God's grace
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Title: The Mystery of Christ ... and Why We Don't Get It by Robert Farrar Capon ISBN: 0802801218 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus by Robert Farrar Capon ISBN: 0802839495 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Genesis: The Movie by Robert Farrar Capon ISBN: 080286094X Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Foolishness of Preaching : Proclaiming the Gospel Against the Wisdom of the World by Robert Farrar Capon ISBN: 0802843050 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Fingerprints of God: Tracking the Divine Suspect Through a History of Images by Robert Farrar Capon ISBN: 0802847684 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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