What’s So Funny About God?: A Theological Look at Humor Audiobook (Free)

If you don’t believe God has a love of life, just look into the mirror.

Humor is a human being phenomenon-crossing history, tradition, and every stage of existence. Jokes often touch on the largest topics of our life. And although it may seem simple on the surface, humor depends on the use of our highest faculties: vocabulary, intelligence, sympathy, sociability. Towards the philosopher Steve Wilkens, these facts about laughter are proof that God simply has to be in there somewhere. Yet many Christians, about What’s Therefore Crazy About God?: A Theological Look at Humor scholars and laypeople alike, haven’t taken humor seriously. In What’s Therefore Crazy About God? Wilkens launches an exploration of the contacts between humor and many of the central topics of Christian theology. He argues that observing Scripture and theology through the lens of laughter brings fresh understanding to our knowledge of the gospel, assists us avoid the pitfalls of both naturalism and gnosticism, and facilitates a humble, honest, and appealing approach to faith. Wilkens changes this lens for the paradoxes of individual character, the Christian calendar, church life, and brand-new readings of well-known biblical texts, including the publication of Esther, the nativity narratives, and Jesus’s own teachings. Considering the problems of suffering and the necessity for well-timed lament, he portrays the Christian story as one that ultimately ends in cosmic comedy.