Book Review

I just completed Peter Rollins newest book called The Fidelity of Betrayal. I've been reading it with a group of friends from Journey, meeting together with them on Tuesday evenings at The Black Friar pub in Dallas where we discuss our thoughts about the book. My official review of the book is as follows:

Rollins has taken a fairly simple concept and managed to obscure it behind a tangled mess of poorly formed arguments, incongruent analogies and efforts at cleverness that fall well short of intrigue, bordering on the offensive. I believe that a majority of Christians would find his overarching theme agreeable, assuming they could discover it amidst the mess of a book he's written. I appreciate the point he's trying to make, but found the book itself to be disjointed, inconsistent and frustrating to read.

We have one more meeting, tomorrow evening, to wrap up our discussion of the book. Perhaps once the entire experience of the book and subsequent conversations about it have ended I'll return to this post to elaborate a bit on my review. Perhaps the book hasn't been significant enough to me to warrant the extra effort.

Until next time...