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Turning the World Upside Down!
Ed Stetzer, in his Foreword to Trevin Wax's Holy Subversion, notes that "instead of being salt and light we have become unsalted and lite." Wax writes to enlighten us to six areas of bland liteness and to equip us in those same six life arenas to be salt and light once again.When I first picked up the book, examined the table of contents, and pondered the relative youthfulness of the author, I cringed. My fear? Too often books like this are heavy on guilting Christians about worldliness, with little insight into joyfully being in the world but not of the world. Often you finish books like this and think to yourself, "I guess being a Christian means doing nothing and doing it mournfully."Thankfully, nothing could be further from the truth regarding Holy Subversion. Oh, there's plenty of "true guilt" to go around--each of the six "middle" chapters artfully expose the subtle and not-so-subtle ways Western Christians have subverted holy living. However, those same...
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January 19, 2010
(Crown Point, IN United States) | Helpful Votes: 18 | Rating: 5
Subversion Showdown
During grad school in New England I took a class with Tom Wright at Harvard Divinity School in which he explained how certain titles commonly used of Jesus, such as "Lord," "Son of God," "Savior of the world," etc., were first used of the Roman Emperor. Later that same week, in my exegesis of Revelation class, Greg Beale made the same point. It was then the light bulb went on: "This would make a great book! Line up the titles for Caesar and his empire, show how those conventions are relevant today, and explain how the kingdom of Christ directly subverts them."Years have passed since that eureka moment and I have not thought much about the concept since them, that is, until today when I picked up a copy of the new book by Trevin Wax titled Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals. Trevin beat me to it, and I'm so glad he did because he has done a marvelous job.In eight chapters Trevin explains how Jesus subverts self, success, money, leisure,...
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January 31, 2010
(Chicago, IL) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5
Naming the the "Caesars" of our Day
When Christianity started under the shadow of the Roman Empire, one of the struggles for the early Christians was their allegiance to Christ against the Caesar worship that took place in that culture. In Acts 17, Luke describes the new church plant in Thessalonica and the trouble they faced with the city authorities because these Christians were accused of "acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus."In our modern and sophisticated culture, we often do not see how there are other "Caesars" in our time demanding allegiance, but Trevin Wax has done us a favor by naming these idols in his book Holy Subversion. At 160 pages, Trevin's book is a good and helpful introduction to the temptations that face Christians in this particular culture. The principalities and powers at work in the first century are also behind the idols of our day, and Wax examines six "Caesars" we have to guard ourselves against: self, success, money, leisure, sex, and...
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January 28, 2010
(ROSSVILLE, TN, United States) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5
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Christians are too often guilty of pledging their allegiance to the influential principalities and powers of this age rather than to Christ alone. In Holy Subversion, Trevin Wax challenges such behavior by urging a return to the subversive lifestyle of the earliest Christians. Their proclamation and demonstration that "Jesus is Lord" directly opposed the Caesar worship of their day.
Today, Christians in the West must choose between Jesus and our "Caesars": self, success, money, leisure, sex, power. What would it look like, asks Wax, if today's church reclaimed the communal, subversive nature of the gospel, intentionally undermining all contenders for our devotion? How would the message that "Jesus is Lord" change our thinking about our jobs, our families, and our church participation? Here this gifted pastor-theologian offers help in taking our faith public, dethroning modern-day Caesars, honoring the Lordship of Christ, and understanding the church as the ultimate counterculture-an embodiment of Christ's supremacy over all.
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