For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World)

I am not going to write up a full post on this. I listened to it on audio and the last time I wrote up a book of Volf's that I listened to on audio he complained about it not only directly but on twitter as well latter.

I have read four of his book and I continue to find him very helpful.

Part of the irony for me here is that the book talks about the need to make theology more accessible and useful out of the academy and then spends what I think was way too much time exploring that (which is likely not particularly interesting outside of the academy).

The main point is that Volf thinks that the focus of theology needs to be human flourishing, which I think makes a lot of sense. And the constructive part of the book at the end was very helpful and I wish was a bigger part of the book.

I would like to re-read the last half of the book again later in print when I find it on sale at some point.