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51% Christian : Finding Faith after Certainty /

God is not an idea. Christian faith is not a set of propositions you either believe or reject. According to a proper Trinitarian understanding, God is essentially relationship, a relationship of sheer, active, ecstatic, self-giving love. If we truly are encountered by this magnificent love of the Tr...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Stenberg, Mark (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Introduction : getting rid of God
  • 1. How the cheatin' heart of modernity double-crossed the doctrine of revelation
  • 2. Death to the conceptual trinity! : an anti-monotheistic manifesto
  • 3. De-Greekifying the divine, or how to quit thinking about God
  • 4. Jesus has a question for you
  • 5. (Jesus bonus chapter) Dear God : why couldn't Jesus have been a girl?
  • 6. Why your theory of the atonement sucks
  • 7. Holy spirit revival, featuring live snake handling
  • 8. God and creation : how I got over my pantheist envy
  • 9. How to read the Bible backward
  • 10. The seven deadly myths about sin, or how to sin like a Christian
  • The hell chapter. Heaven, hell, and the last judgment : the second voyage of Saint Brendan
  • 12. Toward an ethics of butt-kickin' grace
  • 13. The church : everything you've always wanted to know about sects but were afraid to ask
  • Conclusion. So much straw : the transience of theology
  • Afterword.