SURPRISED BY JESUS:
Subversive Grace in the Four Gospels
By Dane Ortlund
Evangelical Press. 192 Pages. £9.99
ISBN 978 1 783 973 163
After the bestselling Gentle and Lowly, here is another book by Dane Ortlund, which seeks to open our eyes afresh to just how surprising and subversive the Jesus of the Gospels is.
Ortlund does this very successfully, focusing on what gives each gospel its own individual style and concerns as it displays the person of Christ and His mission. He considers the subversive nature of what true obedience looks like in Matthew, the shocking idea that the King is treated as a criminal in Mark’s Gospel, the insider/ outside dynamic in Luke, and ‘the creator as creature’ in John’s Gospel.
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