Freeing Jesus

by Diana Butler Bass

Author	: Diana Butler Bass
Publisher	: HarperCollins
Total Pages	: 245
Release	: 2021-03-30
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 0062659561

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The award-winning author of Grateful goes beyond the culture wars to offer a refreshing take on the comprehensive, multi-faceted nature of Jesus, keeping his teachings relevant and alive in our daily lives. How can you still be a Christian? This is the most common question Diana Butler Bass is asked today. It is a question that many believers ponder as they wrestle with disappointment and disillusionment in their church and its leadership. But while many Christians have left their churches, they cannot leave their faith behind. In Freeing Jesus, Bass challenges the idea that Jesus can only be understood in static, one-dimensional ways and asks us to instead consider a life where Jesus grows with us and helps us through life’s challenges in several capacities: as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence. Freeing Jesus is an invitation to leave the religious wars behind and rediscover Jesus in all his many manifestations, to experience Jesus beyond the narrow confines we have built around him. It renews our hope in faith and worship at a time when we need it most.

Christianity After Religion

by Diana Butler Bass

Author	: Diana Butler Bass
Publisher	: Harper Collins
Total Pages	: 257
Release	: 2012-03-13
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 0062098284

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Diana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianity’s leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new “spiritual but not religious” movement. Using evidence from the latest national polls and from her own cutting-edge research, Bass, the visionary author of A People’s History of Christianity, continues the conversation began in books like Brian D. McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity and Harvey Cox’s The Future of Faith, examining the connections—and the divisions—between theology, practice, and community that Christians experience today. Bass’s clearly worded, powerful, and probing Christianity After Religion is required reading for anyone invested in the future of Christianity.

Liberating the Gospels

by John Shelby Spong

Author	: John Shelby Spong
Publisher	: Harper Collins
Total Pages	: 501
Release	: 2009-10-13
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 0061748420

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In this boldest book since Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Bishop John Shelby Spong offers a compelling view of the Gospels as thoroughly Jewish tests.Spong powerfully argues that many of the key Gospel accounts of events in the life of Jesus—from the stories of his birth to his physical resurrection—are not literally true. He offers convincing evidence that the Gospels are a collection of Jewish midrashic stories written to convey the significance of Jesus. This remarkable discovery brings us closer to how Jesus was really understood in his day and should be in ours.

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by Brian Tome

Author	: Brian Tome
Publisher	: Thomas Nelson Inc
Total Pages	: 239
Release	:
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 1418584037

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Sensing Jesus

by Zack Eswine

Author	: Zack Eswine
Publisher	: Crossway
Total Pages	: 322
Release	: 2012-11-30
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1433520990

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This is a book about the behind-the-scenes reality of a life in ministry. It tells you what Zack Eswine wishes somebody else would’ve told him. With over 20 years of experience in ministry, Zack shares with incredible honesty about his own failures, burnout, and pain, all the while addressing the complexities of leadership decisions, church discipline, family dynamics, and so on. Presenting sound pastoral theology couched in autobiographical musings and powerful prose, this book offers a fresh and biblically faithful approach to the care of souls, including your own.

The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus

by Tripp Fuller

Author	: Tripp Fuller
Publisher	: Fortress Press
Total Pages	: 194
Release	: 2015-11-01
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1506401252

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Christology is crazy. Its rather absurd to identify a first-century homeless Jew as God revealed, but a bunch of us do anyway. In this book, Tripp Fuller examines the historical Jesus, the development of the doctrine of Christ, the questions that drove christological innovations through church history, contemporary constructive proposals, and the predicament of belief for the church today. Recognizing that the battle over Jesus is no longer a public debate between the skeptic and believer but an internal struggle in the heart of many disciples, he argues that we continue to make christological claims about more than an event or simply the Jesus of history. On the other hand, C. S. Lewiss infamous liar, lunatic, and Lord scheme is no longer intellectually tenable. This may be a guide to Jesus, but for Christians, Fuller is guiding us toward a deeper understanding of God. He thinks its good newsgood news about a God who is so invested in the world that God refuses to be God without us.

Breaking Free

by Russell Willingham

Author	: Russell Willingham
Publisher	: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages	: 219
Release	: 2010-08-28
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 0830868135

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Leading readers through self-diagnosis and step-by-step through the stages of recovery, Russell Willingham reminds us of all the resouces Christians have at their disposal for dealing with sexual addiction.

Freeing Congregational Mission

by B. Hunter Farrell

Author	: B. Hunter Farrell
Publisher	: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages	: 200
Release	: 2022-01-25
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1514000695

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North American congregations face a deepening crisis of consumer-oriented "selfie missions" and practices based on colonial-era assumptions. Seeking to free congregational mission from harmful cultural forces, this book helps churches better partner with God's work in the world, offering the latest research and practical, step-by-step tools for churches.

A People's History of Christianity

by Diana Butler Bass

Author	: Diana Butler Bass
Publisher	: Harper Collins
Total Pages	: 374
Release	: 2009-03-03
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 0061448702

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For too long, the history of Christianity has been told as the triumph of orthodox doctrine imposed through power and hierarchy. In A People's History of Christianity, historian and religion expert Diana Butler Bass reveals an alternate history that includes a deep social ethic and far-reaching inclusivity: "the other side of the story" is not a modern phenomenon, but has always been practiced within the church. Butler Bass persuasively argues that corrective—even subversive—beliefs and practices have always been hallmarks of Christianity and are necessary to nourish communities of faith. In the same spirit as Howard Zinn's groundbreaking work The People's History of the United States, Butler Bass's A People's History of Christianity brings to life the movements, personalities, and spiritual disciplines that have always informed and ignited Christian worship and social activism. A People's History of Christianity authenticates the vital, emerging Christian movements of our time, providing the historical evidence that celebrates these movements as thoroughly Christian and faithful to the mission and message of Jesus.