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In our era of CGI, everything Dante described in poetry can be recreated on the big screen for those who want to face their deepest fears in a climate-controlled environment where the smell of buttered popcorn masks the stench of sulfur.
“This is a well-thought, well-written and well-researched book by an author whose voice is a very welcome and much-needed one in today’s theological climate. Read it and prepare to be amazed. Simply put, this book is freaking awesome.” K E I T H G I L E S Author of the Jesus Unbound and Jesus Undefeated and Co-host of the Heretic Happy Hour podcast”
― Saying No to God: A Radical Approach to Reading the Bible Faithfully
― Saying No to God: A Radical Approach to Reading the Bible Faithfully
“Since, for most centuries since Jesus died, the majority of the population couldn’t read or had limited access to books, why would an all-knowing God think self-revelation through a book was a good idea? For 1,500 years or so after the death of Jesus, God’s holy book remained inaccessible to most everybody except Christian priests who did the reading and interpretation of the book. Does this sound like a plan designed by the “God of the Universe”?”
― GUESSING ABOUT GOD
― GUESSING ABOUT GOD
“It is now increasingly agreed that the Old Testament in its final form is a product of and response to the Babylonian Exile. This premise needs to be stated more precisely. The Torah (Pentateuch) was likely completed in response to the exile, and the subsequent formation of the prophetic corpus and the “writings” [poetic and wisdom texts] as bodies of religious literature (canon) is to be understood as a product of Second Temple Judaism [postexilic period]. This suggests that by their intention, these materials are . . . an intentional and coherent response to a particular circumstance of crisis. . . . Whatever older materials may have been utilized (and the use of old materials can hardly be doubted), the exilic and/ or postexilic location of the final form of the text suggests that the Old Testament materials, understood normatively, are to be taken [understood] precisely in an acute crisis of displacement, when old certitudes—sociopolitical as well as theological—had failed.[”
― The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say about Human Origins
― The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say about Human Origins
“I am not trying to offer a cheap apologetic for the resurrection of Christ; accepting the resurrection of Christ is truly a matter of faith.”
― The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say about Human Origins
― The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say about Human Origins
“People must be able to reconstruct their own pattern of meaning, regardless of what it looks like or how long it takes—it simply must be all their own. Experiencing depression or numbness is normal during this phase of recovery (Winell 23). I have had clients who have even gone so far as to describe it by saying, “I don’t feel alive.” Losing a former faith story means losing the meaning-making method by which a person made sense of their life and the world around them.”
― You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
― You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
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