Amelinda Bérubé's Reviews > A Consuming Fire

I enjoyed this book a lot; it made me think!

To those who felt weird about the Christian symbol of the "sufferer", what I see in this book is not a glimpse of Christianity stuck in a story with a fantasy religion, but rather two visions of Christianity - what it has been (rapacious and cruel, demanding) and what it should/could be (founded on love, giving). If I was going to quarrel with anything here it'd be the way the contrast is framed - smacks of Old Testament vs New Testament to me, which is a dichotomy I dislike, but I think that's a bone I have to pick with...idk, Paul maybe? as opposed to a problem w the book. Like, if Christianity as an institution imagines itself as standing in contrast to some previous, crueller understanding of God, then painting that institution in the cruelty it professes to abhor is a full blast indictment.