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Living Faith
by
Jimmy Carter
For almost three decades, President Carter has regularly spent part of each Sunday reading from scripture and sharing his personal faith with neighbors, friends, and visitors at his Baptist church in Plains, Georgia. In Living Faith, he draws on this experience, exploring the values closest to his heart and the personal beliefs that have nurtured and sustained him.
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Paperback, Large Print, 288 pages
Published
September 14th 1998
by Broadway
(first published December 12th 1991)
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Jimmy Carter not only served as President of the United States in the post-Watergate years but also taught a mean Sunday school class. This book, based around some of those lessons but written as a personal narrative is very helpful in understanding the contours of Jimmy Carter's faith. Two things stood out to me. One is that Jimmy Carter has had a genuine personal encounter with Christ. Two is that he is strongly convinced that it is not enough to profess faith in Christ if one does not live th...more
"Christians can buttress their arguments on almost any subject by emphasizing certain selected Scripture verses then claiming that they should be applied universally. But when we do this, we're using the Bible as a rationalization for our personal preferences, which we assume are correct. The resulting divisions are usually based on the presumption of preeminence by one group over others: 'God and I are right, and anyone who diagrees with us is wrong.' I'm always concerned about such 'true belie...more
Jimmy Carter is a good man. He was also a good President, in spite of what many will say. He did the best he could with the issues he was given, as all Presidents' do. Being the President of the US, is not a job I would want. The fate of too many good and honest people rest on that office holders' shoulder. Each of our President's are human, none of them are perfect, yet we judge them on their perfection, a scale by which none of us dare to measure ourselves by first.
I have a lot of respect for President Jimmy Carter, more for his continuing efforts towards world peace and his work with Habitat for Humanity than for anything else. I knew that he was a Christian, but I didn't really know much about his beliefs or his life. So I was pleased to find this audiobook in the library book sale.
While we don't share all the same beliefs, I really found so much to admire about Carter in this book. He hasn't always had an easy path in life. He talks about his decision t...more
While we don't share all the same beliefs, I really found so much to admire about Carter in this book. He hasn't always had an easy path in life. He talks about his decision t...more
This book has a lot going for it: nicely packaged, well-written, thoughtful, candid. At times I really enjoyed it. But overall I found it a little disappointing. Carter endless boasting is too much to stomach.
The most helpful aspect of this book was to understand better the contours of Carter's personal theology. What is very clear is that by any classical standard Carter may be a committed Christian but he is no evangelical. His beliefs include: Homosexual practice is acceptable (p.187), Bibli...more
The most helpful aspect of this book was to understand better the contours of Carter's personal theology. What is very clear is that by any classical standard Carter may be a committed Christian but he is no evangelical. His beliefs include: Homosexual practice is acceptable (p.187), Bibli...more
Rambling spiritual memoir. It might have been more interesting if I'd read it together with a more systematically focused source about Baptist religion or about Carter's life, which this book could have helped put in perspective. But by itself, I found it neither very informative nor very provocative.
A clear statement about his faith and how he has tried to live that faith out throughout his life. Though I disagree with him on some issues, and did not vote for him in either 76 or 80, I have a very high regard for him and the work he has done since he left the White House
It was what I would expect from Jimmy Carter. He took bible verses and related them to different stages in his life.
This was the first biography where I learned there was such a thing as super passionate married Christians.
I truly enjoyed his honesty in the book, it was so personal and real. I would read it again.
Stood in line to have him sign mine!
I am always impressed by President Carter's books and this one was no exception. The best point I took away from this book was the same one from the sermons Sunday Morning in Plains.
Followers of Jesus must remember that love is the greatest of all things and that is how we lead others to Christ, not exclusion or judgement.
Followers of Jesus must remember that love is the greatest of all things and that is how we lead others to Christ, not exclusion or judgement.
It would be so much easier to like organized religion if it were as Jimmy Carter envisions and practices it. I was lucky enough to read this book in time for a signing he did in St. Louis in January 1997. My copy is signed, and I got to meet him, which was immensely humbling.
As a person of faith interested in public affairs, this book has so far been a great insight into how faith and moral values can responsibly function in a complicated multi-cultural society like the U.S.
Went to a booksigning at Cody's Bookstore in Berkeley to get it signed by Jimmy Carter. I couldn't get myself to talk, so I just stared at him. He and Tony Campolo exemplify Compassionate Christians.
In this book President Carter talks about how his faith and values have shapedhis life. This book is 5 star must read book.
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James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981, and the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. Prior to becoming president, Carter served two terms in the Georgia Senate and as the 76th Governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975.
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