Book Review – “The Divine Conspiracy” – by Dallas Willard

The Divine Conspiracy can be described in one word: WOW! What the Purpose Driven Life lacks in substance, this book by Willard more than makes up in depth. It would be impossible to give an accurate summary of this nearly 400 page masterpiece, but I’ll try in the most brief of terms. Willard contends that our Christian life in the present is only an extension of eternity in Christ’s Kingdom. The more we realize and understand that fact, the more we will be ready and willing to live life according to Christ’s commands. Seriously, that brief summary falls so far short of doing this book justice. You absolutely must read it yourself if you are at all serious about your Christian walk. Be warned it is deep. It took me the better part of a year to finish it myself and I need to read it again! I’m slow though, so you might finish it much more quickly.

I would echo the assessment of Richard Foster in his forward to this book:

“A masterpiece and a wonder…the book I have been searching for all my life…I would place The Divine Conspiracy in rare company indeed: alongside the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and John Wesley, John Calvin and Martin Luther, Teresa of Avila and Hildegard of Bingen, and perhaps even Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo. If the parousia tarries, this is a book for the next millennium.” – Richard J. Foster

Buy it and read it. You won’t be disappointed that you did.