There need to be more books like this on the market and being used in seminary studies and in the church. Any treatment of shame is going to be received with skepticism, but this is a much-needed and vital contribution to the discussion of how shame WORKS.

Te-Li Lau's Defending Shame is a helpful read for anyone who wants to better understand 'honour and shame' framework that is indigenous to the gospel of Jesus Christ. A helpful read.

This book is over complicated and for no real good reason. The author drones on a lot without actually doing what he said he was going to do in the first which is discuss Paul's use of shame in the Bible. However, this is a very hard to follow book and it is possible he did discuss it and I just missed it in all of the endless droning and repetition.

.I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher and NetGalley. The views given are my own.