Aug
22
2009
Gregg Allison Endorsement of Holy Subversion
Dr. Gregg Allison is a professor of Systematic Theology at Southern Seminary and is the author of Jesusology: Understand What You Believe About Jesus And Why
I called “Dr. A” and picked his brain when I was first starting work on Holy Subversion. I am grateful for his recommendation.
Using a definition of subversion as “pushing something back down into its proper place,” Trevin Wax seeks to subvert the idols of our society—self, success, money, leisure, sex, and power—in a theologically responsible and challengingly practical way.
These false gods must be thrust back into their proper place, and that subversion is precisely what the gospel of Jesus Christ—the message about the crucified and resurrected God-man who is Lord over all bogus lords—equips us to do.
Wax wonders, “What would it look like today if we reclaimed the subversive nature of Christian discipleship?” Read this fine book if you wish to live as the true Savior and Lord Jesus Christ would have you live.
- Gregg R. Allison, Ph.D.
Professor of Christian Theology
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary