Book description
Rob Bell's bestselling book Love Wins struck a powerful chord with a
new generation of Christians who are asking the questions church leaders
have been afraid to touch. His new book, What We Talk About When We Talk
About God, continues down this path, helping us with the ultimate
big-picture issue: how do we know God?
Love Wins was a Sunday Times bestseller that created a media storm,
launching Bell as a national religious voice who is reinvigorating what
it means to be religious and a Christian today.
He is one of the most influential voices in the Christian world, and
now his new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God, is poised
to blow open the doors on how we understand God.
Bell believes we need to drop our primitive, tribal views of God and
instead understand the God who wants us to become who we were designed
to be, a God who created a universe of quarks and quantum string
dynamics, but who also gives meaning to why new-born babies and stories
of heroes and sacrifice inspire in us a deep reverence.
What We Talk About When We Talk About God will reveal that God is not
in need of repair to catch him up with today's world so much as we need
to discover the God who goes before us and beckons us forward.
A book full of mystery, controversy, and reverence, What We Talk About
When We Talk About God has fans and critics alike anxiously awaiting,
and promises not to disappoint. For Love WIns:
'Bell fights every impulse in our culture to domesticate Jesus [and]
challenges the reader to be open to surprise, mystery and all of the
unanswerables… Bell has given theologically suspicious Christians new
courage to bet their life on Jesus Christ.' (Christian Century)
'Claiming that some versions of Jesus should be rejected, particularly
those used to intimidate and inspire fear or hatred, Bell persuasively
interprets the Bible as a message of love and redemption. . . . His
style is characteristically concise and oral, his tone passionate and
unabashedly positive.' (Publishers Weekly)
'One of the nation's rock-star-popular young pastors, Rob Bell, has
stuck a pitchfork in how Christians talk about damnation.' (USA Today)
'It isn't easy to develop a biblical imagination that takes in the
comprehensive and eternal work of Christ… Rob Bell goes a long way in
helping us acquire just such an imagination without a trace of soft
sentimentality and without compromising an inch of evangelical
conviction.' (Eugene H. Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual
Theology, Regent College, and author of The Message and The Pastor)
'A bold, prophetic and poetic masterpiece. I don't know any writer who
expresses the inexpressible love of God as powerfully and as beautifully
as Rob Bell! No one who seriously engages this book will put it down
unchanged. A 'must read' book!' (Greg Boyd, senior pastor at Woodland
Hills Church and author of The Myth of a Christian Nation)
'In Love Wins, Rob Bell tackles the old heaven-and-hell question and
offers a courageous alternative answer. Thousands of readers will find
freedom and hope and a new way of understanding the biblical story -
from beginning to end.' (Brian D. McLaren, author of A New Kind of
Christianity and Naked Spirituality) Rob Bell is the Founding Pastor
of Mars
Hill Holy Bible Church in Grand Rapids,
Michigan. He speaks to sold-out audiences
across the world and pioneers a series of
short films called NOOMA. He and his
wife Kristen have three children.
Backlist
Love Wins
Velvet Elvis
Jesus Wants to Save Christians
Sex God
Drops Like Stars
