{"id":3556,"date":"2021-01-03T13:39:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T13:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2021-01-03T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T13:39:20","slug":"book-review-jude-and-2-peter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/book-review-jude-and-2-peter\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Jude and 2 Peter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jude<\/p>\n

After enjoying Gupta’s excellent commentary on 1 and 2 Thessalonians in the New Covenant Commentary Series, it was a no-brainer for me to pick up another one, and dig in to Jude and 2 Peter. I read this commentary devotionally – in chunks, for personal application and reflection, and pray for my local church – though naturally some of the notes and corners folded have wider application.<\/p>\n

The author of this commentary, Andrew M. Mbuvi, offers helpful comments both on the text and its application – with his challenging observations from an African perspective being particularly relevant to the concerns in Jude and 2 Peter around in groups and out groups, and the dehumanising language that so often marks disputes, and was a hallmark of the colonial era. This does not come, however, as an imposition on the text but rather a right application. Mbuvi’s primary focus is what the text says to the faithful community – which he does with a masterful blend of engagement with the text, and explaining it in simple, readable english. I particularly appreciated – having not really studied Jude and 2 Peter before, other than hearing sermons – the balancing of virtue and vice, and ethics and eschatology. Mbuvi comments that “Eschatology lays the\u00a0groundwork for the ethics for the community<\/i>“. To our individualistic, contemporary-obsessed, ‘liberated’ society, Jude and 2 Peter have much to say.<\/p>\n

If you are looking for a short and readable commentary, then I think that the NCCS series is looking to me to be a good choice. Mbuvi carefully and helpfully blends serious engagement with the text with a real sense of how this text can apply to churches today. Other than some occasionally poor copy-editing (‘fairy inferno, anyone?!?!) this is a nicely put together and very readable commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After enjoying Gupta’s excellent commentary on 1 and 2 Thessalonians in the New Covenant Commentary Series, it was a no-brainer for me to pick up another one, and dig in to Jude and 2 Peter. I read this commentary devotionally … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1126,2,844,44,73],"tags":[1121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}