In 1965, he published his first book, Bed and Board.
A lifelong New Yorker, for almost thirty years Capon was a full-time parish priest in Port Jefferson, New York. He was born in Jackson Heights, Queens in 1925 and graduated from Columbia College in 1946 and Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1947. Robert Farrar Capon (Octo– September 5, 2013) was an American Episcopal priest, author and chef.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. So let’s end on Capon’s quote again: “The Gospel of grace must not be turned into a bait-and-switch offer…. Jesus must not be read as having baited us with grace only to clobber us in the end with law.This article needs additional citations for verification. Jesus had pretty stern words for those who, in Capon’s words, “clobber us in the end with law.”Īnd if we’ve already got the medical condition of depression, getting a sanctification beatdown will only make us feel more bleak. “Okay, now that you’re Christians, let’s get to sanctification.”Īnd then we get so hung up on our sanctification that we become unwitting legalists, in the process. No wonder so many feel heavy going to these churches. Unwittingly, we begin depending on our works, and that mindset has been encouraged by a lot of spiritual leaders who claim, “Salvation by grace alone” but preaching something else. We accept grace, but as time goes on, we find ourselves increasingly confusing sanctification with salvation. Yet Christians are often tempted (as am I) to twist that into this - salvation, and then salvation by law. “The Gospel of grace must not be turned into a bait-and-switch offer…. Jesus must not be read as having baited us with grace only to clobber us in the end with law.”
Robert Farrar Capon, in Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus.
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