"In evangelical churches, Boyd claims, "the sins we declare ourselves to be against are invariably selected to not target ourselves." Really? In the church where my wife and I are members, Faith Evangelical Covenant Church in Wheaton, Illinois—as in all the churches we have regularly attended—the sins our pastor warns us against are as mundane and deadly as those illuminated in The Screwtape Letters."

"Hence 'God's goal is that humans, when filled with God's unsurpassable love and eternal life, would replicate God on an individual level and overflow with love back to God, to themselves, and to their neighbors.' Except for that word replicate, which doesn't seem quite right, I want to say amen."

"And yet the animating impulse of this book is powerfully winsome: a beautiful vision ... in which we are called to "dance the eternal dance of the Trinity, to participate in and glorify this unsurpassably loving fellowship. ... even though Gregory Boyd and I may be stepping on each other's toes, I am dancing too."