Title: Between noon and three : romance, law, and the outrage of grace /
Authors: Capon, Robert Farrar.
Publisher: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Grace (Theology); Law and gospel.; Ethics; Sexual ethics; Eschatology.
Abstract: Picture a college town in the mid-1970s. An English professor who has become an expert in extramarital dalliances is smitten by one of his graduate students. They meet for lunch around noon, and before three they make declarations of love. Is it possible that their subsequent affair could ultimately teach us something about true forgiveness and the radical meaning of grace? Only Robert Farrar Capon would have the audacity - and the authorial skill - to fashion such a.
Contents: pt. I. Parable -- Law, grace, and the free drink -- The tyranny of angels -- 'Twas grace that taught my heart -- Interlude with Augustine -- The rising tide -- Greater trumps -- Catharine -- Death -- Laura -- Resurrection -- Beyond all liking and happening -- From noon till three -- Morality vs. grace -- Two Pauls -- Spirituality vs. grace -- Superstition vs. grace -- The picnic -- pt. II. Coffee hour -- To the woodshed -- Sticks, stones, and snake oil -- An unacceptable parable -- Objections from the floor -- And having done that, thou hast Donne -- As pants the hart for cooling streams -- pt. III. The youngest day -- Rub-out -- Afterlife -- The four last things -- Tracking the mystery of reconciliation -- Re-membering the garden -- The outrage of grace -- Rigged justice -- The hell of it all -- Heaven in a nutshell -- Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.