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What Christianity Is Not

Author : Douglas John Hall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621895416
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book What Christianity Is Not written by Douglas John Hall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really is Christianity? If all the religious packaging in which it is wrapped were removed, what would remain? These were Bonhoeffer's questions, and they must be ours today--even more urgently! For in many quarters Christianity is being so narrowly identified with some of its parts, cultural associations, and past ambitions that like all militant religion, it represents a threat to the planetary future. We may no longer speak clearly of the essence of Christianity, as von Harnack and other nineteenth-century thinkers did; but perhaps we may still have a sufficiently shared sense of the kerygmatic core of this faith to be able, in the face of these misrepresentations of it, to say what Christianity is not.

Christianity Is Not Religion

Author : James a. Fowler
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1929541244
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Christianity Is Not Religion written by James a. Fowler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Fowler explains that Christianity is not a book-religion, not a belief-system, not morality, not role-playing, not social problem-solving, not an ideological option, and not an ...ism, before concluding with the positive emphasis that Christianity IS Christ.

Faith Misused

Author : Alvin J Schmidt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758671110
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Faith Misused written by Alvin J Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Overview of the use of the Greek word pistis in the New Testament and how the English word faith is often misused"--

Christianity Is Not Great

Author : John W. Loftus
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616149574
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Christianity Is Not Great written by John W. Loftus and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new anthology critiquing Christianity, John Loftus—a former minister and now a leading atheist—has brought together an outstanding group of respected scholars who focus on the harms caused by the world’s leading religion. The contributors begin by dissecting the many problematic aspects of religious faith generally. They repeatedly demonstrate that, with faith as a foundation, almost anything can be believed or denied. And almost any horrific deed can be committed. The authors then take a good hard look at many of the most important political, institutional, scientific, social, and moral harms committed in the name of Christianity. These range from the historical persecutions of the Inquisition and witch hunts to the current health hazards of faith healing. Finally, the authors answer three common Christian retorts to criticisms from nonbelievers: (1) that atheists cannot judge a harmful action without an objective moral standard; (2) that atheists need faith to solve the world’s problems; and (3) that atheists cannot live a good life without faith. Loftus and the contributors generally conclude that, given both the well-documented historical record and ongoing problems raised by the faith, Christianity decisively fails empirical tests of its usefulness to humanity.

Why Mike's Not a Christian

Author : Ben Young
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736918655
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Why Mike's Not a Christian written by Ben Young and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can most believers give a rational explanation for their faith? Have most skeptics ever heard convincing answers to their arguments? Author Ben Young creates an intriguing and insightful dialogue between a skeptic, Mike, and a Christian friend working through Mike's questions with thoughtful, biblical answers. Along the way, readers will discover responses to the most common reasons people say they are not a Christian- It's true for you, but not for me All Christians are hypocrites Evolution is true The Bible is full of myths All paths lead to God, not just one Open-minded skeptics looking for answers or Christians looking for a way to articulate their beliefs more effectively will want this on hand.

What Christianity Is Not

Author : Douglas John Hall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610976711
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book What Christianity Is Not written by Douglas John Hall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really is Christianity? If all the religious packaging in which it is wrapped were removed, what would remain? These were Bonhoeffer's questions, and they must be ours today--even more urgently! For in many quarters Christianity is being so narrowly identified with some of its parts, cultural associations, and past ambitions that like all militant religion, it represents a threat to the planetary future. We may no longer speak clearly of the essence of Christianity, as von Harnack and other nineteenth-century thinkers did; but perhaps we may still have a sufficiently shared sense of the kerygmatic core of this faith to be able, in the face of these misrepresentations of it, to say what Christianity is not.

Your God is Too Glorious

Author : Chad Bird
Publisher : New Reformation Publications
ISBN 13 : 1948969815
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Your God is Too Glorious written by Chad Bird and published by New Reformation Publications. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.In our day of celebrity worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.

8 Reasons Why I'm Not a Christian

Author : Mike Calhoun
Publisher : Word of Life Fellowship
ISBN 13 : 9781935475194
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book 8 Reasons Why I'm Not a Christian written by Mike Calhoun and published by Word of Life Fellowship. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbelief is contagious, and there are a million reasons not to believe. This series attacks had on 8 of the most common objections to faith; objections like; Christianity does not work, God does not care, Christianity does not own truth, Your heaven is my hell, your Hell is my heaven, Christians are Stupid, Christians are hypocrites, God is Mean.

The Christian Delusion

Author : John W. Loftus
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616141689
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Christian Delusion written by John W. Loftus and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this anthology of recent criticisms aimed at the reasonableness of Christian belief, former evangelical minister and apologist Loftus has assembled fifteen outstanding articles by leading skeptics, expanding on themes introduced in Loftus' first book.

The Theme of Jewish Persecution of Christians in the Gospel According to St Matthew

Author : Douglas R. A. Hare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521020459
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Theme of Jewish Persecution of Christians in the Gospel According to St Matthew written by Douglas R. A. Hare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the historical data related to the suffering imposed on Christians and evaluates Matthew's portrayal of the persecutions.

Christianity for People Who Aren't Christians

Author : James Emery White
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493419293
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Christianity for People Who Aren't Christians written by James Emery White and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I wish this book had been around when I was an atheist and started to seek God. It's a no-nonsense, practical, and insightful guide that will help all those on a quest for spiritual truth. If you're investigating whether there's any substance to the Christian faith, you must read this important book."--Lee Strobel, former award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune and bestselling author of more than twenty books *** In our post-Christian age, the old answers for skeptics are no longer cutting it. Why? Because they largely seek to answer the wrong questions. Our world is changing, and while the gospel never changes, the way we talk about it and learn about it must. Christianity for People Who Aren't Christians answers both classic and bleeding-edge questions that skeptics have about the faith, such as - Is there a God? - Why do the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus matter? - Why is there so much suffering in the world? - Why do Christians think there is only one way to know God? - How do I reconcile the Bible's picture of Christ's followers with the actual Christians I know who have disappointed me? Covering such topics as astrophysics, social justice, and acceptance of the LGBTQ community, this one-of-a-kind book is perfect for those skeptical of Christianity and for those who love them and want to keep the line of communication open.

Not Every Spirit

Author : Christopher Morse
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567027430
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Not Every Spirit written by Christopher Morse and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Every Spirit explores the notion of Christian faith as disbelief and how the task of "testing the spirits" develops and comes to be understood within Christianity as a theological discipline called dogmatics. It also focuses on uncovering disbeliefs of the Christian faith concerning the Word of God, the being of God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, creation, salvation, humanity, the church, and the life to come. This book is a fresh and timely dogmatic text that will take its place as a standard work on Christian teachings.

God Is Not Great

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551991764
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book God Is Not Great written by Christopher Hitchens and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as “one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time” takes on his biggest subject yet–the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope’s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.

God Is No Thing

Author : Rupert Shortt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1805261614
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book God Is No Thing written by Rupert Shortt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This coolly written tract offers an erudite and eloquent argument for the importance of Christian values in modern life.

Christians Against Christianity

Author : Obery M. Hendricks, Jr.
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807057401
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Christians Against Christianity written by Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and galvanizing work that examines how right-wing evangelical Christians have veered from an admirable faith to a pernicious, destructive ideology. Today’s right-wing Evangelical Christianity stands as the very antithesis of the message of Jesus Christ. In his new book, Christians Against Christianity, best-selling author and religious scholar Obery M. Hendricks Jr. challenges right-wing evangelicals on the terrain of their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers. He scathingly indicts the religious leaders who helped facilitate the rise of the notoriously unchristian Donald Trump, likening them to the “court jesters” and hypocritical priestly sycophants of bygone eras who unquestioningly supported their sovereigns’ every act, no matter how hateful or destructive to those they were supposed to serve. In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, Christians Against Christianity is a clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical Right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. What Hendricks offers is a provocative diagnosis, an urgent warning that right-wing evangelicals’ aspirations for Christian nationalist supremacy are a looming threat, not only to Christian decency but to democracy itself. What they offer to America is anything but good news.

The Historical Reliability of the New Testament

Author : Craig L. Blomberg
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433691701
Total Pages : 809 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book The Historical Reliability of the New Testament written by Craig L. Blomberg and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions about the reliability of the New Testament are commonly raised today both by biblical scholars and popular media. Drawing on decades of research, Craig Blomberg addresses all of the major objections to the historicity of the New Testament in one comprehensive volume. Topics addressed include the formation of the Gospels, the transmission of the text, the formation of the canon, alleged contradictions, the relationship between Jesus and Paul, supposed Pauline forgeries, other gospels, miracles, and many more. Historical corroborations of details from all parts of the New Testament are also presented throughout. The Historical Reliability of the New Testament marshals the latest scholarship in responding to New Testament objections, while remaining accessible to non-specialists.

Understanding Jesus

Author : Joe Amaral
Publisher : FaithWords
ISBN 13 : 1455512494
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Jesus written by Joe Amaral and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2011-09-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern-day Christians often bring their own presuppositions and assumptions to the reading of the Bible, not realizing how deeply their understanding of Christ's life and teachings is affected by a 21st-century worldview. In Understanding Jesus, author Joe Amaral delves deep into Jewish history, societal mores, and cultural traditions, closing the gap created by geographical distance and over two thousand years of history. Using a chronological approach to the life of Christ, he guides the reader through significant events such as Jesus' birth, baptism, and crucifixion, pointing out illuminating details that that the Western mind would normally miss. Amaral's premise is that to understand Jesus, we must understand the time and place in which he was born, the background from which he drew his illustrations, and the audience he spoke to. Throughout the book he explores specific terms, places, and events for their significance and shows how they add richness and meaning to the text. Topics include the connection between Jesus and John the Baptist, the annual Feasts and why they are important to modern Christianity, Jewish customs such as foot-washing, clean and unclean foods, paying tribute to political governments, and the significance of various miracles. In Understanding Jesus, Amaral draws back the curtain on a way of life that existed during the reign of the Caesars, and in doing so, reveals truths about the way we live more than two thousand years later, half a world away.