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"He was constitutionally incapable of being dull," says editor Andrew Scrimgeour of Robert Funk. "You do not need caffeine to stay awake through a Funk speech or essay."
Robert Walter Funk, founder of the Jesus Seminar, was a leading New Testament scholar of the second half of the twentieth century. A natural problem solver and keen observer of life, he was educated at Butler and Vanderbilt and taught at universities from Cambridge, Mass to Missoula, Montana. In Just Call Me Bob, Funk delights and enlightens reader with his reflections on a wide variety of topics which, not surprisingly, include God, the Bible, Jesus, and academia.
Scrimgeour has done a yeoman's task, researching and then consolidating the wit and wisdom of Robert Funk under one cover. The result is a rich collection of sayings and writings, at times poignant, at times profound, even, at times, pugnacious.
"If we cannot laugh at ourselves and even about the things we hold dear, then God's reign has eluded us," Funk said on one occasion. "The acquisition of information is no certain cure of ignorance," he said on another. In 1975 he wrote, "Readers of the gospels speak glibly about the religion of Jesus because his followers created a religion about Jesus. It is not at all clear that religion concerns Jesus."
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Colby Tyner
reviewed Just Call Me Bob: The Wit and Wisdom of Robert W. Funk on April 23, 2008
Just Call Me Bob: The Wit and Wisdom of Robert W. Funk
This book was originally published in 2008 as Things That Cannot Be Shaken. The title--and the arrangement of the book perhaps--was inspired by a hymn written by John Newton, "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken." It definitely uses the hymn--and the Scriptures its based on--as a starting point for its theological discussions.
I do not believe there is one central theme in this one. I think it would be easiest to say it's about living the Christian life well. It is about some central truths of Christianity and how those truths are being attacked (by some) within and without the church. I would not go so far as to say it was an apologetic book with a primary focus of how to defend the faith or how to witness to a skeptic.
The book does spend some time on the Bible, on defending the Bible and establishing it as the authority in the Christians' life.
Favorite quotes:
The truth of God and the authority of God are summed up in what God has spoken in His Son.
The fact of the matter is, if we fail to see Holy Scripture as authored by God, and therefore as the ground of its own authority, we will fail to understand what Scripture actually is.
We have to "own" the truth of God's Word if we honestly claim to believe it.
To think biblically about the Lord's presence is to put to death those dark and hidden places of our hearts in order that the light of the gospel might overpower us.
A heart that is only sinful will sense no tension in its perpetual disobedience.
The pattern of the Christian life looks something like this: the more we grow and obey God's Word, the more sin we see in our lives; the more sin we see in our lives, the more we want to get rid of it and know God's forgiveness. The Christian life is a struggle for holiness; as Christians, in this life we are always at war. This is the normal Christian life.
Daily, real faith in Christ looks like a battle.
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