The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity (J-b Leadership Network Series) - Softcover

McLaren, Brian D.

 
9780470248423: The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity (J-b Leadership Network Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0470248424 ISBN 13: 9780470248423
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

For all those seeking more authentic ways to hold and practice Christian faith, Brian McLaren has been an inspiring, compassionate—and provocative—voice. Starting with the award-winning A New Kind of Christian, McLaren offered a lively, wide-ranging fictional conversation between Pastor Dan Poole and his friend Neil Oliver as they reflected about faith, doubt, reason, mission, leadership, and spiritual practice in the emerging postmodern world. That conversation widened to include several intriguing new characters in the sequel, The Story We Find Ourselves In, as Dan and friends continued to explore faith-stretching themes from evolution to evangelism, from death to the meaning of life. Now, in this third installment of their adventures, Dan and his widening circle of friends grapple with conventional Christian teachings about hell and judgment and what they mean for our relationship with God and each other. Is there an alternative to the usual polar views of a just God short on mercy or a merciful God short on justice? Could our conflicted views of hell be symptoms of a deeper set of problems – misunderstandings about what God’s justice and mercy are about, misconceptions about God’s purpose in creating the world, deep misgivings about what kind of character God is and what the Christian gospel is for?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brian D. McLaren is a speaker, author, activist, and networker exploring the intersection of Christian faith and contemporary life. He has written or co-written over a dozen books, including A Generous Orthodoxy, The Secret Message of Jesus, and Everything Must Change. For twenty-four years he served as the founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in the Washington-Baltimore area. He was named by Time magazine as one of America's twenty-five most influential Evangelicals. He is a founding member of emergentvillage.com. See www.brianmclaren.net.

About the Leadership Network

The mission of Leadership Network is to identify and connect innovative church leaders and provide them with resources in the form of new ideas, people, and tools. Contact Leadership Network at www.leadnet.org.

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The Last Word and the Word After That

Book Three in The New Kind of Christian Trilogy

In the final installment of The New Kind of Christian Trilogy, Pastor Dan Poole and his friends face and survive their questions, doubts, and dark nights of the soul. They begin to imagine a new vision of God?and a new way of life that is more truly biblical and faithful, more inspiring and challenging, more intellectually satisfying and emotionally healing than conventional religious life. Those seeking more authentic ways to hold and practice Christian faith will find needed hope and insight in this intense and human fictional tale.

"With the passion of a Reformation broadside, Brian McLaren's The Last Word and the Word After That goes for popular Christianity's theological jugular: hell and damnation. McLaren's fictional Pastor Dan deconstructs dangerous understandings of eternal life and points toward the joy-filled possibility of Christian community shaped by a radical biblical vision of God's love and justice."
?Diana Butler Bass, author, Strength for the Journey and Christianity for the Rest of Us

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Verlag
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0470248424
ISBN 13 
9780470248423
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Anzahl der Seiten
302
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