Book Review: Curveball
By Sean Curran
Our colleague, Sean Curran recently wrote a book review for the WCIU Journal of Peter Enns’ new book, ‘Curve-ball.” Here is an excerpt of the article, which you can read in its entirety here.
“By curveball,” Enns writes, “I don’t mean some bump in the road that could have easily been avoided, nor some annoyingly uncomfortable moment that can be handled by distracting ourselves […] I mean those experiences that are so momentous we simply cannot continue living as if they hadn’t happened – everything changes, and we know we cannot remain as we were.”
In his book, Enns writes that our experiences are a key part of our faith. With each unexpected experience, with each shocking revelation, with each swing and a miss—God reveals who God really is to us. And these curveballs, what we might more often refer to as our “failures” or “crises” in our lives, can be transformative moments bringing us closer to God as God is.
Our human experience will inevitably include some curve balls; Peter Enns’ book hopes to help make sense of them.
