Review: BEAUTIFUL OUTLAW by John Eldredge

For better or worse, this is an Eldredge book, with all that implies.

Needless to say, it's written well. In addition to his own talent, Eldredge has a background in theatre, and is living example of the truth that reading good authors makes you a good author.

The central idea is that Jesus is bigger and wilder than we think. If that sounds familiar, it should. It's the central idea of most of Eldredge's books. It seems like Eldredge has made the same mistake as many others: he assumes his own experience is normative.

He loves the wilderness,so all men must love the wilderness, so God must love the wilderness. It doesn't take a genius to to find the problem with that logic. By that argument, he fly fishes, so all men must fly fish,so God must fly fish. He's named John Eldredge, so all men must be named John Eldredge, so God must be named John Eldredge.

I don't recommend this book, because it's so similar to his other books, and because he seems to have made God in his own image