The world of theological discourse, writes Robert Farrar Capon, is frequently filled with flawless perfectly matched king size wedges of baloney. It should be, he insists, a serious but loving word game whose basic rule is that every word, and particularly every image, must be examined and used with the greatest possible care. In this book he shows us why no words of ours can ever be trusted to mean the same thing when used about ourselves on the one hand and about God on the other.

This book is not so much a deep theological book, however, the material it does present is done so quite adeptly. Capon is a genius with the English language and his imagery is exquisite. ( )