Book description
For all those seeking more authentic ways to hold and practice
Christian faith, Brian McLaren has been an inspiring, compassionate-and
provocative-voice. Starting with the award-winning
A New Kind of Christian,
McLaren offered a lively, wide-ranging fictional conversation between
Pastor Dan Poole and his friend Neil Oliver as they reflected about
faith, doubt, reason, mission, leadership, and spiritual practice in the
emerging postmodern world. That conversation widened to include several
intriguing new characters in the sequel, The Story We Find Ourselves In,
as Dan and friends continued to explore faith-stretching themes from
evolution to evangelism, from death to the meaning of life. Now, in this
third installment of their adventures, Dan and his widening circle of
friends grapple with conventional Christian teachings about hell and
judgment and what they mean for our relationship with God and each
other. Is there an alternative to the usual polar views of a just God
short on mercy or a merciful God short on justice? Could our conflicted
views of hell be symptoms of a deeper set of problems -
misunderstandings about what God's justice and mercy are about,
misconceptions about God's purpose in creating the world, deep
misgivings about what kind of character God is and what the Christian
gospel is for?
Brian D. McLaren is a speaker, author, activist, and networker
exploring the intersection of Christian faith and contemporary life.
He has written or co-written over a dozen books, including A Generous
Orthodoxy, The Secret Message of Jesus, and Everything Must Change.
For twenty-four years he served as the founding pastor of Cedar Ridge
Community Church in the Washington-Baltimore area. He was named by
Time magazine as one of America's twenty-five most influential
Evangelicals. He is a founding member of emergentvillage. com. See
www. brianmclaren. net.
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