Gary Black, Jr. has co-authored a continuation of The Divine Conspiracy with Dallas Willard, finishing it off after the passing of Dallas.

Biblegateway has this interview with Gary Black, Jr. The new book is now out. I hope to have it in the near future.

Explaining the title and what “conspiracy” means, Black had this to say:

The word “conspiracy” comes from the idea that much of God’s action in the world is very different from what we might expect. Human action tends to be overt. We tend to like big, dramatic displays of power. In contrast, God’s activity throughout human history, and Jesus’ strategy demonstrated in the New Testament, is routinely covert, sly, often ironic, and even unsuspecting. Perhaps the biggest conspiracy theory is demonstrated in God’s plan to save the world through the birth of a small baby boy, in a backwater country, to a teenage mother, in a stable under the cover of relative anonymity. There was no human display of pomp and circumstance in Jesus’ birth. Just a few lowly shepherds watched in awe. Such is the act of a conspiracy, a covert plan, that sneaks up on us in surprise, like a resurrection after an execution, to overwhelm the kingdoms, strategies, plans, and priorities of this world, not with evil, but with good.

It is marvelous to see the work of Dallas Willard extended. This book looks good. John Ortberg’s new book on Soul Keeping is excellent. The “conspiracy” continues.