There's a fullness and churchliness to it that abbreviated evangelical treatments of the gospel don't always capture, though I've read exceptions. I would recommend this to seminarians, young pastors in need of encouragement, and anyone who wants to know (or be reminded) why the classical Protestant articulation of the gospel remains earth-shattering to many today. The translation from Swedish was a little bumpy at times. It had strong similarities to my own Reformed molding in the gospel, to a degree that even surprised me, though I'm sure I could parse out points of difference if I'd been looking to read it that way. It was the unadulterated presentation of the gospel, from a robustly Lutheran perspective, that I found refreshing. It wasn't so much the stories or characterization that I found compelling, though the settings in various periods of Scandinavian Lutheran church history were interesting. It's a collection of three novellas, set respectively in the early 1800s, late 1800s, and early WWII, about young pastors coming to grips with the power of the gospel, often out of various kinds of revivalist and rationalist formation in seminary. I'd been wanting to get my hands on this book for a couple of years and finally borrowed it from the local Lutheran seminary.
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