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An Unchanging Faith in a Changing World: Understanding and Responding to Critical Issues That Christians Face Today
From evolutionary science to Islam, from the New Age Movement to the gay rights movement, a wide-ranging analysis of the eighteen most important issues facing Christians today explores the Christian response to the many challenges of the modern world.
- GenresChristianity
404 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1998
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About the author
Kenneth D. Boa
104 books51 followersKenneth Boa is an author, a speaker, and the president of Reflections Ministries. He is the author of over fifty books, including Conformed to His Image, Faith Has Its Reasons, Face to Face, and Rewriting Your Broken Story. He is a contributing editor to the Open Bible, the Promise Keepers Men's Study Bible, and the Leadership Bible, and is the consulting editor of the Zondervan NASB Study Bible.
Boa earned a BS from Case Institute of Technology, a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, a PhD from New York University, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He teaches a weekly Bible and Faith study at Peachtree Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, where he resides with his wife.
Boa earned a BS from Case Institute of Technology, a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, a PhD from New York University, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He teaches a weekly Bible and Faith study at Peachtree Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, where he resides with his wife.
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August 16, 2009
I was disappointed with this book--it was not as good as I expected. The authors are fairly theologically conservative and I expected fresh thinking which I felt I didn't get.
Imagine my surprise when reading the chapter on cultic Christianity that I saw the authors had lumped the founder of my group (Friends) in with the New Age.
I agreed with their assessment of fundamentalists as all too often reacting "to new developments in the culture with initial suspicion, if not hostility..." (p. 161).
However, I was taken aback at this quote in the chapter on relativism: "Even those of us who are still uncomfortable with interracial marriages almost universally recognize that there are no good moral objections to such unions" (p. 184). So the authors are admitting that they or at least one of them is uncomfortable with interracial marriage?? To that, I ask why? What are they afraid of?
The best chapter in the book is the one on homosexuality. I thought the authors did a good job of exegeting scripture related to this topic while still advocating treating people with love. I learned some things in that chapter that I will be able to use when discussing this topic. The best quote of the book was in this chapter: "The problem with hypocrites is generally not that they are wrong about others, but that they are wrong about themselves (Matt. 23).
Imagine my surprise when reading the chapter on cultic Christianity that I saw the authors had lumped the founder of my group (Friends) in with the New Age.
I agreed with their assessment of fundamentalists as all too often reacting "to new developments in the culture with initial suspicion, if not hostility..." (p. 161).
However, I was taken aback at this quote in the chapter on relativism: "Even those of us who are still uncomfortable with interracial marriages almost universally recognize that there are no good moral objections to such unions" (p. 184). So the authors are admitting that they or at least one of them is uncomfortable with interracial marriage?? To that, I ask why? What are they afraid of?
The best chapter in the book is the one on homosexuality. I thought the authors did a good job of exegeting scripture related to this topic while still advocating treating people with love. I learned some things in that chapter that I will be able to use when discussing this topic. The best quote of the book was in this chapter: "The problem with hypocrites is generally not that they are wrong about others, but that they are wrong about themselves (Matt. 23).
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