BONNIE KRISTIAN shows that a vibrant diversity within Christian
orthodoxy-which is simply to say a range of different ways to faithfully follow
Jesus-is a strength of our faith, not a weakness.
It is all too easy to fail to grasp the diversity of the Christian faith-especially for those
who have grown up in one branch of the church and never explored another. We fail to
realize how many ways there are to follow Jesus, convinced that our own tradition is
the one Christian alternative to nonbelief.
A FLEXIBLE FAITH is written for the convinced and confused believer alike. It is a
readable exploration of the lively theological diversity that stretches back through
church history and across the spectrum of Christianity today. It is an easy introduction
to how Christians have historically answered key questions about what it means to
follow Jesus. Chapters will include 17 big theological questions and answers; profiles of
relevant figures in church history; discussion questions; single-page Q&As-profiles of
more unusual types of Christians (e.g., a Catholic nun or a member of an Amish
community); and a guide to major Christian denominations today.
As Bonnie shares her wrestlings with core issues-such as who Jesus is, what place the
Church has in our lives, how to disagree yet remain within a community, and how to
love the Bible for what it actually is-she teaches us how to walk courageously through
our own tough questions.
Following Jesus is big and it is something that individual believers, movements, and
denominations have expressed in uncountably different ways over the centuries. In the
process of helping us sort things out, Bonnie shows us how to be comfortable with
diversity in the Body. And as we learn to hold questions in one hand and answers in the
other, we will discover new depths of faith that will remain secure even through the
storms of life.
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