Basic Christianity
A bit of a mixed bag. I feel like the book is geared towards people who know what Christianity is, but need to be convinced of it? It’s not the introduction of Christianity to the completely unknowing that I thought was going to be.
The book clearly make some good arguments and some good framing (John Stott being something of a evangelical legend), but it wasn’t the mic drop I was hoping for.
Update
Added on
So, I accidentally read this again. I picked it up, thinking I hadn’t read it before, and I only realized I had read it when I came here to write a review and found that I already had.
I liked it quite a bit more this time. It’s divided up into four section:
- Who Christ Is
- What We Need
- What Christ Has Done
- How to Respond
The first section is the only one that could be considered an apologetic. I didn’t find much there that I hadn’t heard before. The second section is about the nature and consequences of sin. The third section is about Atonement Theory, basically – why Jesus was condemned to die. The last section is an explicit call to Christianity: how to do it, and what it means.
I don’t know why the book spoke to me more this time around. Perhaps I’m just in a different phase of life than I was three years ago.
Book Info
- Author
- John R.W. Stott
- Year
- Pages
- 179
- Acquired
- I have read this book. According to my records, I completed it on .
- A softcover copy of this book is currently in my home library.