Unbelievable : why neither ancient creeds nor the Reformation can produce a living faith in the 21st century
Book |
1st edition |
HarperCollins Publishers
New York :
c2018
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- ISBN: 9780062641298
- Physical Description: xvi, 319 pagesprint
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers c2018
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-297) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: Part I. Setting the stage. Why modern men and women can no longer be believers -- Part II. Stating the problem. How the first Reformation began -- Differentiating the experience from the explanation -- Part III. Thesis 1: God. The challenge of the Copernican revolution -- The impact on theism from Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin -- Dealing with the insights of Freud -- A place to begin--being not a being -- The quest for God: a new form -- Our definition of God: evolving, never fixed -- Part IV. Thesis 2: Jesus the Christ. Escaping the idolatry of the Incarnation -- The collapse of the salvation story -- Part V. Thesis 3: Original sin. The Garden of Eden -- Part VI. Thesis 4: The virgin birth. The story of the virgin birth -- The actual details behind Jesus' birth -- Part VII. Thesis 5: Miracles. When miracles entered the Bible -- The miracles in the Moses/Joshua story -- Elijah and Elisha--miracles expanded -- The miracles of Jesus -- Messiah miracles--the final clue -- Part VIII. Thesis 6: Atonement theology. Renouncing "Jesus dies for my sins" -- Incomplete--not fallen -- Part IX. Thesis 7: Easter. The Resurrection -- Paul's list of Resurrection witnesses -- The Gospels' understanding of Easter -- Part X. Thesis 8: The Ascension. Elijah magnified -- Part XI. Thesis 9: Ethics. Finding the basis for ethics -- How the Ten Commandments have changed through history -- Meet Moses' father-in-law -- The questionable relevance of the Ten Commandments today -- Modern ethics -- Part XII. Thesis 10: Prayer. The death of prayer -- Prayer: an act of being or of doing? -- Driving power toward a new understanding -- Part XIII. Thesis 11: Life after death. Life after death--still believable? -- A new perspective on eternity -- Part XIV. Thesis 12: Universalism. The marks of tomorrow's Christianity -- Part XV. Epilogue. My mantra: This I do believe.