e~mergent kiwi

kiwi sandwiched between richard hays and brian mclaren

My authors copy of Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross arrived today.

It is such an important book; offering 18 sermons on preaching the atonement today, putting contemporary preached wheels to the multiple images of the atonement in the Bible. I have already used 3 sermons from it as case studies in my Living the Text class at Fuller Theological Seminary. There are sermons from CS Lewis, Rowan Williams (Archbishop of Canterbury) and me. A little Kiwi! Sandwiched between New Testament scholar Richard Hays and Brian McLaren.

My semon is titled "Participation and an Atomized World: A Reflection on Christ as Representative New Adam" and is part of a series of 10 sermons I preached around the communion table in 2004. The editor notes of my sermon; "Rather than discarding the biblical imagery and language, however, Taylor digs into the contemporary context and experience of New Zealanders ... to breathe new life and meaning into biblical images. Therefore Taylor not only stands on firm biblical ground ..[but] ... also in line with fine theological work done by one of the church's early theologians." (pages 103-4, 109.)