The Thrill of Orthodoxy, Trevin Wax
The Thrill of Orthodoxy, Trevin Wax
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The Thrill of Orthodoxy
Rediscovering the Adventure of Christian Faith

Author: Trevin Wax

Narrator: Trevin Wax

Unabridged: 6 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/08/2022

Synopsis

Every generation faces the temptation to wander from orthodoxy—to seek out the jolt that comes with false teaching, and to drift with cultural currents. And so every generation must be awakened again to the thrill of orthodoxy, and experience the astonishment that comes from stumbling afresh upon the electrifying paradoxes at the heart of the Christian faith.

In The Thrill of Orthodoxy, Trevin Wax turns the tables on those who believe Christian teaching is narrow and outdated. Returning to the church's creeds, he explains what orthodoxy is and why we can have proper confidence in it, and lays out common ways we can stray from it. By showing how heresies are always actually narrower than orthodoxy—taking one aspect of the truth and wielding it as a weapon against others—Wax beckons us away from the broad road that ultimately proves bland and boring, and toward the straight and narrow path, where true adventure can be found.

About Trevin Wax

Trevin Wax is vice president of research and resource development at the North American Mission Board and a visiting professor of theology at Cedarville University. A former missionary to Romania, Trevin is a regular columnist at The Gospel Coalition and has contributed to the Washington Post, Religion News Service, World, and Christianity Today. He has served as general editor for The Gospel Project and has taught courses on mission and ministry at Wheaton College. He is the author of several books, including The Multi-Directional Leader, Rethink Your Self, This Is Our Time, Eschatological Discipleship, and Gospel Centered Teaching. He lives in middle Tennessee with his wife, Corina, and their three children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matt

So, so good. Here are some of my favorite quotes: [URL not allowed]-quotes.........more

Goodreads review by Bob

Summary: Spirited advocacy for orthodox belief as vibrant, broad, crucial in the battle before us, and for the renewal of God’s people. Many are the voices echoing Bishop John Shelby Spong advocating “Christianity must change or die.” Orthodoxy is portrayed as dead, sterile, narrow, confining, and ir......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan

Trevin Wax has given us a gem of a book. Early in the book he writes "When we assume the gospel, it is a sign we've lost sight of the beauty before us. We wander when we lose our wonder." This is really the point of this book. Wax is trying to remind us and show us again how great orthodoxy (right/c......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

G. K. Chesterton once commented on the marked difference between typical images found in Christianity and those found in Buddhism: "The Buddhist saint has a sleek and harmonious body, but his eyes are heavy and sealed with sleep. The medieval saint's body is wasted to its crazy bones, but his eyes a......more

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