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Trinitarian Letters: Your Adoption and Inclusion in the Life of God
Trinitarian Letters describes How YOU have been Chosen by God and Adopted by God and Included in the Life of God since before Creation. All made possible by Jesus Christ. "Pastor Paul Kurts illustrates through this important work , a Universal Theology of Love that Jesus would be immensely pleased with today. Paul demonstrates how all humanity are recipients of life and immortality through Jesus. These Christian messages inspire great hope for all showing the reader the vast difference between true Christian teachings of unconditional love and that of "Religious dogma and bondage. Truely freeing"! Dr. Stanley D. Murphy, Ed.D. President, SMP Logistics, LLC "Pastor Paul Kurts offers a refreshing panorama of Trinitarian Grace including ALL in relationship WITH The Triune God. Paul shows us we are eternally called and invited into the rich relationship shared between the Father and the Son wonderfully wrapped up in the person of the Holy Spirit". Rev. Michael Rayson, O.S.L., Pastor St Paul UMC, Brighton, Illinois "Minister, Pastor and Teacher, Paul Kurts teaches diligently and tirelessly from a Trinitarian Theology of understanding. His writings, TRINITARIAN LETTERS, is based upon the Great Triune God's love for ALL humanity. We are His adopted children included in His life forever. The reader will see the Gospel as not only Good News, but the BEST news ever for mankind". Joe Johnson, B.S. University of Tennessee, B.L., Southern University of Law. "TRINITARIAN LETTERS expresses in an easy to understand manner the relational nature of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and the truth that is Jesus alone. This work explains "Who is the Truth", not only what is the truth. This book, written in 'laymans language' is a must read for anyone wishing to understand the Gospel from an all inclusive Trinitarian perspective and one's involvement in it".
250 pages, Paperback
First published January 10, 2011
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October 28, 2017
I really liked the book, and it helped me get closer to God.
July 3, 2013
I have reviewed books from Westbow publishing before–Thomas Nelson’s Self Publishing Imprint. Like my previous reviews, I find I am forced to write a rather critical review. The problem with self published books is that there is no publisher, editor, or literary referee to vet the book for publication. It doesn’t mean there can’t be a good self published book, because clearly there are. Yet without a good copy editor errors in spelling, grammar and formatting inevitably find their way to the page.
Trinitarian Letters: Your Adoption and Inclusion in the Life of God by Paul Kurts is fraught with errors. There are embarrassing spelling and grammar errors (‘Calvinism and Armenianism, anyone?). There are errors in the book’s formatting (i.e. the chapter entitled, ‘Do Scriptures Contradict the Gospel? Pt.2,’ appears in the book just before what is presumably part one). There are formatting inconsistencies (i.e. some chapters have ‘Paul Kurts,’ posted under the title or ‘by Paul Kurts,’ while others have nothing) revealing that little has been done to prepare this collection for publication. There is also no hint of internal organization of the chapters. But the biggest errors in this book are errors in literary style. Kurts makes his theological points by peppering his texts with ALL CAPS WORDS AND PHRASES and an an overuse of exclamation points!!!! His TABLE OF CONTENTS IS FOUR SOLID PAGES OF ALL CAPS TEXT. The most charitable way I know to read this book is to allow that Kurts is a career preacher and many of these ‘letters’ would actually communicate effectively as spoken word. As a book though, this is difficult at best.
None of these criticisms touch on the substance of this book, but unfortunately presentation matters if you are going to get your point across. I found this book a difficult slog and it slowed my normal voracious reading pace to a snail’s crawl. But does Kurts have something worth saying? I think so. Kurts seeks to say some good things about our Perichoretic union and full inclusion in the life of God. He says numerous times throughout his book that he is representing the ideas of ‘men like Karl Barth, T.F. Torrance, J. B. Torrance, C. Baxter Kruger, Colin Gunton, Michael Jinkins, Robert Capon' and others. But while their books tend to be tomes of academic theology. Kurts is writing in layperson’s language (ix).
I have deep respect for Kurts reading list and am sympathetic to many of his theological points. I also found some of his readings of individual passages of scripture insightful if not compelling. However there is zero footnotes and the biblical references are somewhat cherry-picked. This makes the book feel more like proof-texting and one that has a sustained engagement with the Bible or theological literature.
So I give this book a single star review, while acknowledging that with a good publisher and editor, Kurts may have actually written a book worth reading. ★
I was given this book for purposes of review by SpeakEasy and have given you my honest review.
Trinitarian Letters: Your Adoption and Inclusion in the Life of God by Paul Kurts is fraught with errors. There are embarrassing spelling and grammar errors (‘Calvinism and Armenianism, anyone?). There are errors in the book’s formatting (i.e. the chapter entitled, ‘Do Scriptures Contradict the Gospel? Pt.2,’ appears in the book just before what is presumably part one). There are formatting inconsistencies (i.e. some chapters have ‘Paul Kurts,’ posted under the title or ‘by Paul Kurts,’ while others have nothing) revealing that little has been done to prepare this collection for publication. There is also no hint of internal organization of the chapters. But the biggest errors in this book are errors in literary style. Kurts makes his theological points by peppering his texts with ALL CAPS WORDS AND PHRASES and an an overuse of exclamation points!!!! His TABLE OF CONTENTS IS FOUR SOLID PAGES OF ALL CAPS TEXT. The most charitable way I know to read this book is to allow that Kurts is a career preacher and many of these ‘letters’ would actually communicate effectively as spoken word. As a book though, this is difficult at best.
None of these criticisms touch on the substance of this book, but unfortunately presentation matters if you are going to get your point across. I found this book a difficult slog and it slowed my normal voracious reading pace to a snail’s crawl. But does Kurts have something worth saying? I think so. Kurts seeks to say some good things about our Perichoretic union and full inclusion in the life of God. He says numerous times throughout his book that he is representing the ideas of ‘men like Karl Barth, T.F. Torrance, J. B. Torrance, C. Baxter Kruger, Colin Gunton, Michael Jinkins, Robert Capon' and others. But while their books tend to be tomes of academic theology. Kurts is writing in layperson’s language (ix).
I have deep respect for Kurts reading list and am sympathetic to many of his theological points. I also found some of his readings of individual passages of scripture insightful if not compelling. However there is zero footnotes and the biblical references are somewhat cherry-picked. This makes the book feel more like proof-texting and one that has a sustained engagement with the Bible or theological literature.
So I give this book a single star review, while acknowledging that with a good publisher and editor, Kurts may have actually written a book worth reading. ★
I was given this book for purposes of review by SpeakEasy and have given you my honest review.
July 13, 2019
"disappointing"
I read Trinitarian Letters with echoes of the lectionary texts for Trinity Sunday 2013 still in my head and heart! In 150 letter-length articles, here's the proof-texting grandpa sitting on the front porch lining out some scriptural connections, real or imagined, explaining in casual conversational manner how each of us participates in the perichoretic life of the Triune God. Or in simpler terms, the godhead comprised of Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Author Paul Kurts self-published this book through Thomas Nelson's WestBow Press, and why not? Many folks publish their own books these days. However, he needed a better editor (or an editor, period); he needed to know enough not to type so many sentences in all-caps... even the 4-page table of contents is all-caps! It doesn't take serious theological propensities to realize auto-correct and spell check are not big on theological terminology, but really, Armenianism? Armenian theology? He meant Arminian, and in the end finally got it right.
pages 93, 141, 152: After reading for the third time that the Reformation happened in the 1600s, it finally dawned on me he might not realize "The Reformation of the 16th Century" refers to "The Reformation in the 1500s."
"Comparisons are odious," and it is plain mean of me even to mention how the subtitle immediately evoked the first of Miroslav Volf's books of free church ecclesiology, After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity. But I can fairly say the lack of theological and grammatical coherence in most of this book would have earned me a D or an F in almost any class in almost any school I attended.
Nonetheless, despite its near-complete lack of organization and clarity, it could be helpful to read Trinitarian Letters as a book of devotions, by thoughtfully pondering the many positively reassuring and familiar passages of scripture Paul Kurts quotes; he especially likes Romans, Colossians, Ephesians, and the Gospel of John. Human adoption into and participation in the relational life of the Trinity is all about knowing God's love, mercy, grace, and inclusion.
I read Trinitarian Letters with echoes of the lectionary texts for Trinity Sunday 2013 still in my head and heart! In 150 letter-length articles, here's the proof-texting grandpa sitting on the front porch lining out some scriptural connections, real or imagined, explaining in casual conversational manner how each of us participates in the perichoretic life of the Triune God. Or in simpler terms, the godhead comprised of Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Author Paul Kurts self-published this book through Thomas Nelson's WestBow Press, and why not? Many folks publish their own books these days. However, he needed a better editor (or an editor, period); he needed to know enough not to type so many sentences in all-caps... even the 4-page table of contents is all-caps! It doesn't take serious theological propensities to realize auto-correct and spell check are not big on theological terminology, but really, Armenianism? Armenian theology? He meant Arminian, and in the end finally got it right.
pages 93, 141, 152: After reading for the third time that the Reformation happened in the 1600s, it finally dawned on me he might not realize "The Reformation of the 16th Century" refers to "The Reformation in the 1500s."
"Comparisons are odious," and it is plain mean of me even to mention how the subtitle immediately evoked the first of Miroslav Volf's books of free church ecclesiology, After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity. But I can fairly say the lack of theological and grammatical coherence in most of this book would have earned me a D or an F in almost any class in almost any school I attended.
Nonetheless, despite its near-complete lack of organization and clarity, it could be helpful to read Trinitarian Letters as a book of devotions, by thoughtfully pondering the many positively reassuring and familiar passages of scripture Paul Kurts quotes; he especially likes Romans, Colossians, Ephesians, and the Gospel of John. Human adoption into and participation in the relational life of the Trinity is all about knowing God's love, mercy, grace, and inclusion.
February 10, 2013
Lots of insightful thoughts on Trinitarian theology. I found the book offensive because of the constant use of capitalized words--I felt like I was being shouted at. I'm having a hard time finishing for that reason.
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