The Great Dance

"Some scenes are breathtaking, and none more so to me than the unlikely dance scene of the King of Siam and Anna, an ordinary British teacher, in the old Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. But that scene, with all of its surprise and grace and delight, is but a shadow compared to the scene set in The Great Dance. Here we learn that we are the ordinary British teacher caught up, not in a momentary dance with a human king, but in the arms of the Father, Son and Spirit and in their great dance of shared life. This is no ordinary book, and Dr. Kruger is no ordinary theologian. He takes the old doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation, shakes them free of their academic dust and irrelevance, and uses them as a secret key to unlock the hidden truth of our ordinary lives as the musical through which nothing less than the life of the Father, Son and Spirit is being played out. Truly breathtaking."

Nancy-Anne Bain Upshaw

Pickens, Mississippi

"Baxter Kruger has done a great service for all Christians who are trying to put wheels on the meaning of the Trinity for their everyday lives. His down-home storytelling and energetic, lyrical prose combine to pull our hearts and very beings into "the great dance" of life. On first reading one of Baxter's books, I cried out, "This is it!" He put flesh on my bony understanding of how our triune God loves me in and through my daily, frequently misshaped, living. And now The Great Dance takes me further, presenting me with the wonderful scene of my everyday existence taken up, through Christ's ascension, into the very life of God. I commend this book to anyone who longs to experience meaning, purpose, and joy in everyday duties and pleasures."

W.J. Douglas Ball

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

"In The Great Dance, Baxter Kruger offers us the most stunning of lenses through which to see what is actually happening in our lives. In fresh, clear, and lively prose, Kruger illumines our human experience of everything from fishing and babies to baseball and bulldozers by drenching it all in a trinitarian flood of light. Along the way, Kruger provides a perceptive interpretation of how the meaning of holiness in the Western tradition evolved in terms of law and order, crime and punishment, rather than reflecting the beauty of the inner life of Father, Son and Spirit. In addition, he clarifies the uniqueness of the trinitarian vision by setting it alongside pantheism on the one hand and deism on the other "

Roger Newell, Ph. D.

George Fox University, Oregon

"Here is a book that demands to be read again and again. For those of us who wrestle with our identity, especially in the midst of the postmodern world's seductive calls, Dr. Kruger offers a marvelous vision of who we are 'in Christ' as participants in the 'great dance' of life shared by the Father, Son and Spirit. All other visions pale in comparison."

Rev. John D. White, Pastor

Cayce Presbyterian Church, Cayce, South Carolina