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

By: Douglas Wilson

Narrated by: Brian Kohl

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.

©2003 Canon Press (P)2018 Canon Press

christlikeness includes chiding the heretic and the prideful

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.

A Much Needed Book

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.

epic

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

Not a pro reader but content is great

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

Biblical Satire

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