Move with care

Tell me. Do you ‘greet the brothers with a holy kiss’? No? You follow respected commentators and replace the kiss with ‘a culturally acceptable gesture’? This is certainly going beyond Scripture, but is it acting unscripturally or just making an allowable extension of what the Bible says? That is the question Dr. Marshall sets out to answer in this book, and to keep company with a devout, Bible-loving and hugely-learned mind wrestling with an inescapable problem is a delight — even should we finally think there must be something more or something different to be said.

Alec Motyer