Faith Without Fear Risky Choices Facing Contemporary Christians |
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| Author:
| Mascord, Keith |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4982-9360-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
| Publisher: | Wipf & Stock Publishers
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| Imprint: | Wipf and Stock |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $36.00 |
Book Description:
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Faith without Fear asks whether Christianity has the wherewithal to meet the increasingly acute intellectual and moral challenges currently facing it, and whether it can shed the reactive fear which now grips its more conservative forms. Major topics of the book include same-sex marriage, patriarchal push-back and the sociology of conservatism. The book seeks to demonstrate the inadequacy and damaging impact of older ways of reading the Bible, and to plot what some will consider a...
More DescriptionFaith without Fear asks whether Christianity has the wherewithal to meet the increasingly acute intellectual and moral challenges currently facing it, and whether it can shed the reactive fear which now grips its more conservative forms. Major topics of the book include same-sex marriage, patriarchal push-back and the sociology of conservatism. The book seeks to demonstrate the inadequacy and damaging impact of older ways of reading the Bible, and to plot what some will consider a risky way forward for 21st century Christians.