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ENUMCLAW, Wash., Aug. 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- John Wooden the great UCLA basketball coach often told his players "to make haste slowly." He knew the paradox created an important tool for his players to participate in the game of basketball well. If they competed with haste they would cause turnovers. If they progressed too lethargic then their opponents would create turnovers. The team must obtain a balance between the two in order to succeed.
Likewise, in the game of life extremes seem so prevalent and easy to step into. "The Seduction of Extremes," a new release from author Dr. Peter M. Kurowski [Pleasant Word, 2006] explains how to avoid living in extremes with a crucial tool of paradox. From anorexia to religious fanatics, humans tend to lean towards extremes; the book begins with this illustration, "A long time ago, an apt observer of history and humanity made this judgment. He said that man, by nature, is like a drunken peasant riding on a horse. He rides a few yards and falls into a ditch on the right. After a rude lesson on gravity, he gets back up and rides a little farther only to fall next in the ditch on the left. Right. Left. Right. Left."
Dr. Kurowski explains how piecing together the polar opposites of Scripture in terms of sin and grace, law and freedom, strength in weakness, winning by losing, and the like, carve a path for a paradoxical truth. He points out that the Bible warns, "Do not go too far to the right and too far to the left" (Deuteronomy 5:32). And also, "The man of God will avoid all extremes" is the hard lesson of life that Solomon would eventually learn (Ecclesiastes 7:18).
Dr. John Warrick Montgomery confirms, "Pastor Kurowski offers readers a fine corrective to the bad theologies and bad practices so often met with at the far left and at the far right of today's church scene."
The author has served as a guest chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, was featured speaker on The Lutheran Hour radio program, and has authored "The Lifelines of Love" as well as numerous magazine articles.
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