The book is billed as a fresh, adventurous look at the parables of Jesus, so we'll see how it goes. I don't remember how I came to have this book, but from what I have read, it may be a little too free and adventurous for my taste. Could be a challenge. ( )

Capon has an admirably colloquial prose style and a light touch, which suits his theological angle well: though the author insists he's no universalist, he leans in that direction, and God's grace is his central theme. He argues that the salvific work of Christ is automatically applied to all of humanity and that only positive rejection of it is grounds for anything approaching damnation. In his treatment of the three categories of parables, he works from clear paradigms: the kingdom parables are about God's use of "left-handed power" (weakness and near non-intervention as opposed to the usual "right-handed" sort), the parables of grace are all about death and resurrection, and the parables of judgment proclaim inclusion before exclusion. All these themes weave throughout all the parables, but each category has its strongest thread.

(I ramble a bit more here: http://readingatwhim.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/kingdom-grace-judgment-by-robert-f...