Book Review: Beautiful Outlaw, by John Eldredge

So excited to do a book review on John Eldredge’s new book called Beautiful Outlaw: Experiencing the Playful, Disruptive, Extravagant Personality of Jesus.


This is, in my opinion, Eldredge’s best book since The Sacred Romance. If you are an Eldredge fan I HIGHLY recommend it.


It is a book about the personality of Jesus, and I really felt like I learned more about who He is and what He is like through Beautiful Outlaw.


For a short while there I began latching on to John’s wife Stasi (she wrote Captivating—a MUST DO Women’s Bible Study) as the female voice of their ministry. I started to feel like, because I was a woman, I couldn’t relate easily to John. But not so with Beautiful Outlaw!


The thing is: I want to know Jesus more. And there are many books about who Jesus is, but few with the eloquence and passion of a writer like John Eldredge. His writing is descriptive, imaginative, and picturesque.


And I just love thinking of Jesus as outlaw. Because He was. He is so much more than that little 8 lb, 3 oz brown haired babe swaddled in a manger. Or that 33 year old innocent man bleeding on the cross.


Here are a few character traits of Jesus that John talks about that I particularly liked: Extravagant Generosity, Disruptive Honesty, Trueness, Humility, Fierce Intention, The Most Human Face of All.


If you grab a copy and read it, please let me know what you think!