ROB BELLSubversive? Celebrity? Radical? Heretic? Holy Man?Before
being featured in Oprah's Super Soul Sunday and making the cover of
Time Magazine, Rob Bell caused the entire evangelical world to
wrestle with the scope of salvation with one daring question: who
gets to be saved?For religious progressives, Bell the star of the
influential Nooma series, game-changer in the church, and budding
TV entrepreneur offers a passionate faith, a prophetic challenge, a
biblical acuity, and a generous vision of who God is in the world.
For conservatives, Bell s the voice that young Christians are
looking for a person who takes science seriously, speaks at cutting
edge of popular culture, and argues God is bigger than our language
for him.The Christian message needs a new interpreter: one
particular enough to embody the tradition but broad enough to evoke
thought and feeling from a range of people, including evangelicals,
religious progressives, and those disenchanted with churched
religion the spiritual but not religious, who find themselves
compelled by Bell s charisma and artistic creations.Rob Bell offers
a beautiful Jesus that entices, absorbs and inspires individuals to
go beyond the back-biting and turf-fighting and culture wars that
plague contemporary forms of evangelical and liberal
Christianity.Author, scholar, and speaker James Wellman offers an
incisive and critical look at Rob Bell: his influence, his roots,
his brand. Wellman's explains Bell s rhetoric, ponders the
implications of his creative message-making, and provides an
interpretation of his influence that puts Bell at the center of a
new American Christianity.Praise for Rob Bell and a New American
ChristianityAs evangelicalism of the twenty-first century continues
its centuries-long quest for speaking the cultural idiom, Rob Bell
s voice has emerged as one of the most significant and
controversial. James Wellman s prodigious research and astute
analysis helps us understand why. Randall Balmer, Dartmouth
College, Author of The Making of Evangelicalism"Twenty years from
now we may look back on Rob Bell as the man who forever changed the
face of American evangelical Christianity. Thank God, then, for
James Wellman's profile of this complex, controversial, and utterly
compelling religious leader. This is a book that should be read by
all Americans regardless of their religious affiliation." Reza
Aslan, author of No god but God and Beyond Fundamentalism Rob Bell
is a phenomenon. The emotional outpouring evidenced in both his
critics and supporters demonstrate that his work has isolated and
exposed a crisis that exists within the Evangelical community. A
crisis that, once brought to the surface, has the potential of
short circuiting fundamentalist strains within the movement and
clearing the path for a theological reformation. This book is among
the first to provide an insight into the development of Bell's
thought and chart the significance of his intervention in the rocky
landscape of Christian culture. Peter Rollins, author of How (Not)
to Speak of God, Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt is
Divine Much more than a biography, Wellman uses the life of Rob
Bell to reveal the inner logic of a growing orthodoxy in American
Christianity. Wellman traces the maturing of this charismatic
preacher from an earnest young pastor to a nuanced bestselling
heretic and in doing so maps the development of a more ambiguous,
more open evangelicalism. This remarkably readable study of Bell s
ministry illuminates the controversies, connects the histories, and
explains the theologies. As the most public figure manifesting the
transformation of American evangelicalism, Bell s less dogmatic,
more relational faith may hold the key to its sustainable future.
Even those familiar with his ministry will find new insights and
come away with a deeper sense of Rob Bell s intimate connection to
the developing history of modern Christianity. Gerardo Marti, L.
Richardson King Associate Professor of Sociology at Davidson
College, and author of A Mosaic of Believers and Hollywood Faith"
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