Joshua Harris' new book Dug Down Deep is written as a layman's book on theology, doctrine and orthodoxy. Harris explains why knowledge about God and Jesus Christ are important. Essentially, to accurately appreciate and worship them in truth, we must know some facts about them. Otherwise, we will be worshipping a God we don't know much about or that we believe some inaccurate facts about.
With a love for theology, I thought I could easily handle reading a light theology book. However, despite all the promise of this book, I had a very hard time getting through the book due to the long drawn out nature of the material. It started off great and with so much potential. I thought I was going to end up buying extra copies for all my friends and family. It started off that good! And theologically, it is very accurate, so it is a good safe read. But it definitely is "light" and covers the basics in a light fashion. It's not very heavy or all that deep, compared to other theology books. Sadly, I think this "lightness" takes away some of the fire and the interest from the book. It's like being given a Shareware version of a computer program, instead of the real full thing! So, although I understand the purpose of light-theology, I wish this book had instead retained depth but made the depth easy-to-read or easy-to-understand. I just thought with all the promise of making theology interesting, Harris failed and again he made theology too drawn out and not quick-to-the point.
I received this book free of charge from the publisher in exchange for this review but I did really give my honest opinion
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