On The Incarnation

Short Review: I read this in part because it has CS Lewis' defense of old books. I largely support Lewis' point. But I think he goes too far in assuming that the modern reader can read old books and not distort them because of the change in culture and history. Much of NT Wright's focus has been to tell modern readers how they are misreading scripture because they have a different culture and history. And I think that is true of many old books. It is not that I think we shouldn't take Lewis' advice. I think we should read old books. But I also think we should be doing the work necessary to understand them and that is often reading about those old books to understand what we may be misunderstanding about them because they were not written to us, but to a different set of people.

I thought the first section of On the Incarnation was much better than the second. The positive defense of the Incarnation was more helpful than Athanasius' arguments with Jews, Pagans and others about the incarnation.

But this is a short book, about 75 pages with the introduction. On kindle there are a number of edition for $0.99.


My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/on-the-incarnation/