David L. Johns

Gospel of the Absurd

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“The church has spent much of its history subverting its messianic origin and its prolific vocation to the totalizing agenda of liberal democracy. Miller’s book exposes this subversion and articulates an ethic rooted in absurdity—the gospel. Here is a call to embody salvation, rather than possess or distribute it as an object of consumer exchange. A community that lives this gospel absurdity upends the power that crushes creation, with a powerlessness that gives life.”