McCall Keller Review
I found Keller’s emphasis throughout regarding the pervasiveness of Western-ism to mark theology, and her condemnation thereof, to be refreshing. That the rest of the world does not want to be like us, was recurring notion throughout the book, it seems. I found the discussion regarding India’s ‘problems’ and their proposed solution by means of Christianity (as hypothetically expressed, 34), to be illustrative of general Western thinking. It is humbling to realize that the Western nations, though they be ‘Christianized’, are truly the most vile and wretched nations around the globe. I must acknowledge, however, that I was regularly offended by the blatant liberalism espoused by the authors of this book, a liberalism that in fact is contrary to the ‘faith once delivered to the Saints’. I regularly got confused by the wording— and its usage thereafter— of imperialism, recolonization, and neocolonialism. I was intrigued, however, by the concept of ‘post’, as used by Taylor (44). Indeed, he uses it as a recurring phenomena, a quality of being, and a constant struggle.
I particularly enjoyed the comparison, which I found intellectually convincing, of ‘Sophia’ to the ‘strange woman’ in Proverbs (190). However, I was struck numb by the accompanying assertion that the ‘Proverbial writer’ depicts the divine figure as being a female (192). I also was somewhat appalled at the re-writing of John 1:1, which substituted ‘sophia’ for the term ‘logos’. Even with the attending explanation of the transfer between Sophia and logos on page 198, I am not convinced that John in fact made this transfer of conceptuality himself, nor that he intentioned such to be inferred or done after him.