A good, close, personal, (related) friend of mine wrote a book review on the book “Jesus For President”. I’ll highlight some of his statements but encourage you to check out the rest at www.comingstobrazil.com.
The review offers insight into what is right:
The author (or authors, I should mention that Jesus for President was co-authored by Chris Haw) are very concerned that American Christianity has become too greatly identified with American nationalism.
And what is wrong:
In order to make his points, Shane Claiborne relies on some very shoddy theology. It is no surprise, then, that the conclusions he comes to are often wrong-headed and unbalanced.
For me however, the money quote was the last paragraph of the review:
Let me say this in conclusion: You do yourself a great disservice if you use Claiborne’s bad theology as an excuse to ignore the very good points he makes. You do the Church a great disservice if you allow the good points he makes to excuse his bad theology.
