If you need a book for spring cleaning your denomination and giving apoplexy to the big noises, you couldn't do better. It would also suit as a birthday present to brighten the ponderous style of a historian. And if you thought the Christian faith was a religion to be defended, you need a dose of Capon's astonishment. You others had better find out where you belong. Capon thinks not.
Catholicity means that the good news is free and for all without exception.
So in the dismal procession of models Christendom has become a religion, a religious institution, the societal religious institution, a collection of societal religions institutions, and finally in our day a free-for all of competing Christian religions each with its own corporate structure. It nearly put me off model theology for good. But I was certainly glad to replace the usual models of the right, center, and left by an elegant model of preferred altitude. Conservatives like me at sea level, the liberals sitting on the mountain peaks, and the rest enjoying the uplands in between. I will leave you to read how the shoe fits in each case.