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A Serrated Edge: A Brief Defense of Biblical Satire and Trinitarian Skylarking

By: Douglas Wilson
Narrated by: Brian Kohl
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Satire is a kind of preaching. Satire pervades Scripture. Satire treats the foibles of sinners with a less than perfect tenderness. But if a Christian employs satire today, he is almost immediately called to account for his "insensitive" and "unloving" behavior. Yet Scripture shows that the central point of some religious controversies is to give offense. When Christ was confronted with ecclesiastical obstinacy and other forms of arrogance, He showed us a godly pattern for giving offense.

In every controversy godliness and wisdom (or the lack of them) are to be determined by careful appeal to the Scriptures and not the fact of people having taken offense.

In this audiobook, veteran satirist Douglas Wilson explains his rationale for why so much of what he says gets people upset and yet he continues to speak as he does, for the sake of the gospel.

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A wonderful treatment of the right and godly use of sarcasm.
Just because you have only seen the wrong Way to use sarcasm, doesn’t mean that it can’t be used rightly.
Highly recommend for all those who cant help but laugh at the ridiculousness of modern Christianity.

Godly sarcasm Jesus style

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every single Christian should read this book and denounce the one-sided Christ likeness that we have aspired to in the last century. scripture is profitable for rebuke and correction as well as training in righteousness and teaching.
it is true, that judgment begins with the house of God. Thank you Doug for this wonderful work, explaining the basis and purpose of biblical confrontation. Keep up the good work.

christlikeness includes chiding the heretic and the prideful

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Most of evangelicalism today is squishy and always attacking the wrong targets (their brothers and sisters of Christ), but I believe this book will help them should they read it. It helped me after all.

A Much Needed Book

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i listened to this on loop all weekend!!! i thoroughly enjoy most everything Dougie Fresh puts out and this one had me just so engaged! i loved it

epic

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Very good look at sarcasm in the Bible. Old book but very applicable to today as well!

Not a pro reader but content is great

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This is a must read for all men and every Christian should be required to study this book for engagement.

Biblical Satire

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Great book, great exposition of Scripture. We need more men to stand on the Word of God and speak out against the skubalon that the world spews out.

Awesome.

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Very helpful discussion of the theology of satire and how vital this form is for the contemporary church.

Very helpful

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