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Bad Girls and Boys Go to Hell (or Not) - Engaging Fundamentalist Evangelicalism (Paperback)
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Bad Girls and Boys Go to Hell (or Not) - Engaging Fundamentalist Evangelicalism (Paperback)
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Synopsis: To question the idea of hell as a default destination is
to question the entire fundamentalist evangelical worldview. This
book does just that. Fundamentalist evangelicalism holds that the
Bible is an infallible authority and that all are born in sin.
Sinners go to hell, but Jesus, taking their place, died to save
them from hell. How did this belief come to be? What were the
effects on people brought up with a belief in the reality of hell?
What has been the process of people leaving the fundamentalist
evangelical movement? In Bad Girls and Boys Go To Hell (or not),
Gloria Neufeld Redekop takes us on her own personal journey as she
engages a movement in which she was raised, conducting a careful
study of the history of fundamentalist evangelicalism, the
attachment to a literal-factual interpretation of the Bible, and an
analysis of the experience of those who have left the movement.
Endorsements: "A sense of liberation does indeed emerge from
knowing that what one was taught as a child is not an eternal
reality, but rather a brand of Christianity born out of specific
political and theological disputes in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. I thank Gloria Neufeld Redekop for helping set captives
free from fear, and for clarifying their predicament to those who
have never before understood fundamentalist evangelicalism." --From
the Foreword by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, author of Omnigender
"Only those who have been members of, and thus violated by,
fundamentalist evangelicalism can name the pain, expose the guilt,
and lay bare the reality that Gloria Neufeld Redekop expresses in
this book. To read it is to experience both exhilarating freedom
and a new understanding of Christianity." --John Shelby Spong,
author of Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World "Not
every reader will agree with every one of Gloria Neufeld Redekop's
conclusions . . . But all readers should appreciate the honesty,
care, seriousness, and sensitivity of this book. It is a
significant memoir, as well as a challenging theological treatise
and important sociological study of those who have left
fundamentalism behind." --Mark Noll, author of Turning Points
Author Biography: Gloria Neufeld Redekop (PhD, University of
Ottawa) has taught in the College of the Humanities at Carleton
University and in the Faculty of Human Sciences at Saint Paul
University in Ottawa, Ontario. She is author of The Work of Their
Hands: Mennonite Women's Societies in Canada (1996).
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