Overview

Worship and Waste is the third installment in Stulac's Christological Companion series, which focuses on the books of Judges (Gift of the Grotesque), 1 Samuel (Tragedy of the Commons), and now 2 Samuel. As the first two volumes demonstrate, Stulac's refreshing approach to biblical interpretation combines hard-won exegetical insights with poignant memoir and incisive reflections on culture, art, and Christian spirituality. Picking up the biblical storyline where Tragedy left off, Worship and Waste invites readers to sink deeply into the Bible's paradoxical portrait of King David--a rapist-murderer caught between God's unconditional love and his own brutality. Carefully avoiding moralisms, Stulac guides his readers through 2 Samuel's graphic depictions of sin by insisting that the text continually looks forward to Jesus Christ, the ultimate Davidic King. ""David's Punishment thoroughly penetrates God's Promise,"" observes Stulac, ""but at the same time, God's Promise still governs the execution of his Punishment. The two 'forevers' of 2 Samuel are forever mixed."" Will David's tragedy transform into comedy before the final curtain falls? Will hope survive? ""Can a ruined House,"" asks Stulac, ""find within its suffering the durable Promises of God?""

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""The questions 'What do you think of Christ?' and 'How do you read the Old Testament?' are closely related. In this culminating volume of his trilogy, Stulac movingly models a cruciform interpretive stance for reading the Old Testament, a posture acutely resistant to all forms of self-justification and restless for redemption instead of at ease with affirmation. Nothing could be more countercultural. And more needed."" --Stephen B. Chapman, Associate Professor of Old Testament, Duke University ""In Worship and Waste, Daniel Stulac completes his trilogy on Judges and 1-2 Samuel. Subtitled A Christological Companion, this is nothing like the Christological approaches you've seen before. Indeed, this volume no less than its predecessors is hard to characterize: part close exegesis, part theological interpretation, part memoir, part homily--all mixed up with poetry and film and bits of contemporary culture, presented by Stulac's arrestingly beautiful prose in service to his keen, incisive insight. . . . A stunning achievement."" --Brent A. Strawn, D. Moody Smith Distinguished Professor of Old Testament, Duke University ""Worship and Waste, while standing alone as an excellent theological guide for 2 Samuel, is a perfect companion to the other two books in this series. A solo is good, but a harmonious trio is even better! If theology is for doxology, then Worship and Waste helps us to sing, even in the wasteland. Take and read . . . and worship."" --Dean Pinter, Canon Theologian, Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham, Alabama ""Worship and Waste is thought-provoking and raw, theologically astute, and refreshingly insightful. I tire of published work that simply repeats what has been said elsewhere. Stulac could never be accused of that. Every installment of his Christological Companion series has pushed me to better reading and better living before God."" --Michelle Knight, Associate Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School ""The questions 'What do you think of Christ?' and 'How do you read the Old Testament?' are closely related. In this culminating volume of his trilogy, Stulac movingly models a cruciform interpretive stance for reading the Old Testament, a posture acutely resistant to all forms of self-justification and restless for redemption instead of at ease with affirmation. Nothing could be more countercultural. And more needed."" --Stephen B. Chapman, Associate Professor of Old Testament, Duke University ""In Worship and Waste, Daniel Stulac completes his trilogy on Judges and 1-2 Samuel. Subtitled A Christological Companion, this is nothing like the Christological approaches you've seen before. Indeed, this volume no less than its predecessors is hard to characterize: part close exegesis, part theological interpretation, part memoir, part homily--all mixed up with poetry and film and bits of contemporary culture, presented by Stulac's arrestingly beautiful prose in service to his keen, incisive insight. . . . A stunning achievement."" --Brent A. Strawn, D. Moody Smith Distinguished Professor of Old Testament, Duke University ""Worship and Waste, while standing alone as an excellent theological guide for 2 Samuel, is a perfect companion to the other two books in this series. A solo is good, but a harmonious trio is even better! If theology is for doxology, then Worship and Waste helps us to sing, even in the wasteland. Take and read . . . and worship."" --Dean Pinter, Canon Theologian, Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham, Alabama ""Worship and Waste is thought-provoking and raw, theologically astute, and refreshingly insightful. I tire of published work that simply repeats what has been said elsewhere. Stulac could never be accused of that. Every installment of his Christological Companion series has pushed me to better reading and better living before God."" --Michelle Knight, Associate Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

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Daniel J. D. Stulac is Assistant Professor of the Old Testament at Briercrest College in Caronport, Saskatchewan. He is the author of numerous books and essays.

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