I am reposting this review because A Life Together is on sale for $2.99 for Kindle until March 1.
Takeaway: Community, like all great Christian paradoxes, is both here, with what we really experience, and potential, with what we might imagine.
I have been thinking about our theological isolation as I have been reading the two books For Calvinism (my review) and Against Calvinism (my review). It is interesting to interact with other Christians that cannot comprehend thinking about a theological issue in any other way than the way they conceive of it. It is not that it is wrong to be sure of our faith. But if we are sure of our faith because we have never thought of our faith or understood that there are other ways to think of our faith, then are we really sure of our faith?
So I think it is important to read works outside our theological comfort zone. If you are a Calvinist, you need to read John Wesley. If you are a Baptist, you should read Pope John Paul II. If you are Methodist, you should read Bonhoeffer or Barth.