Baker, 2006, 282 pages, $16.99, www.bakerbooks.com
In our postmodern era, both the traditional and emergent churches are struggling with the next step in forging their respective identities. Robert Webber’s latest installment in his Ancient-Future Worship series, The Divine Embrace, explains that the best way forward is to look into the church’s past to recover the passionate spiritual life, which finds its birth in the “divine embrace.”
Webber takes the reader back into church history to illustrate the theological richness found in early Church traditions and creeds, and how they still possess the power to transform us today. This transformational power rests in the “divine embrace,” which envelopes all humanity into the beautifully redemptive story of God.
The reader expecting an overnight read needs to beware; this is a book dense with depth and filled with application. This book deserves careful attention by all Christians, most preferably within a small-group setting.
Review by Kyle Jones
