I read Capon’s books on the parables of Jesus back in the early 1990’s.
The overall theology struck me as somewhere in the neighborhood of Barth/Torrance, but I think Capon arrived in that vicinity from a Thomist framework.
It is pretty trippy stuff at times, but there are moments in his wonderfully wry and expressive prose where waterfall torrents of grace cascade over you. I appreciated him not because I agreed with his conclusions, but because his descriptions of God’s gracious work of salvation and its outworkings in the lives of those who receive it are so winsome, and gelled with aspects of salvation as I understand it.
Tullian Tchividjian shares some thoughts.
Mockingbird blog posts some thoughts as well.
I think one of my positions that came out of interacting with Capon’s writings is to always remember that contrary to some conceptions God is more interested in getting people saved than we are. He’s the one who’s bringing people in, while our efforts (in and of themselves) send people away. God’s love is greater than ours, and if we think we want more people to be saved than God does we’re kidding ourselves.
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