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The twenty-first century has seen energy passing between religious
and political worldviews, kicking up dust around the identity- and
conviction-based fault lines in American society. While many
evangelical Christians have developed and deployed a "worldview
theory" to describe and locate themselves within the world's
ideological strife, Jacob Cook argues this approach has, in effect,
compelled those listening to adopt the world's divisive modes of
dealing with difference rather than living out a compelling
alternative. As a popular framework for theology in recent history,
world-viewing has driven its white evangelical adherents to narrate
human lives in this world (including their own) in ways that warp
Christian identity as a personal, social, and theological reality.
Through close studies of key white evangelical leaders who utilized
the worldview concept for political engagement and cultural
transformation over the last century, Cook reveals why worldview
theory is inept for grasping real human complexity and, moreover,
how it forms a barrier to genuine life together as creatures in a
world only the living God can really "view." In between these
studies, he draws from current conversations in psychology,
sociology, critical race studies, and other fields to deliver a
vigorous critique of the worldview concept and its use as well as
its underlying impulse-and to unmask what world-viewing shares with
the history and spirit of whiteness. This book is for those
wrestling with the relationship between Christianity and whiteness
in America, how the dynamics of whiteness have become transparent
and, thus, contentions, and where to go from here if one is to
follow Jesus.
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The Art of Forgiveness (Hardcover)
Philip Halstead, Myk Habets; Contributions by Kit Barker, Dale Campbell, David P. Gushee, …
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Forgiveness is at the heart of the Christian Gospel. It goes hand
in hand with love, mercy, and grace, the fundamental theological
virtues. However, forgiveness is easier to define than it is to
embody. This unique collection of essays brings together
theologians, ethicists, and ministry practitioners into a
constructive dialog which explores the complex and crucial concept
of forgiveness: what it is, where it is to be found, and how it
might be practiced. These essays reflect the perspectives of those
from various traditions who nonetheless take the Christian
Scriptures seriously, believe that forgiveness is central to living
out the Gospel, and are creative in the ways in which forgiveness
can be practiced. Forgiveness is an art and not simply a science;
as such it requires trust, skill, and hope alongside love, mercy,
and grace if it is to be embodied. This volume offers a unique
window into the art of forgiveness and the faithful and innovative
ways in which it is to be understood, embodied, and cultivated.
A comprehensive update of the leading Christian ethics textbook of
the 21st century. Ever since its original publication in 2003, Glen
Stassen and David Gushee's Kingdom Ethics has offered students,
pastors, and other readers an outstanding framework for Christian
ethical thought, one that is solidly rooted in Scripture,
especially Jesus's teachings in the Sermon on the Mount. This
substantially revised edition of Kingdom Ethics features enhanced
and updated treatments of all major contemporary ethical issues.
David Gushee's revisions include updated data and examples, a more
global perspective, more gender-inclusive language, a clearer focus
on methodology, and added discussion questions.
Named one of the Top 10 Books of the Year in 2020 by the Academy of
Parish Clergy "Drawing on his own spiritual journey, David Gushee
provides an incisive critique of American evangelicalism [and]
offers a succinct yet deeply informed guide for post-evangelicals
seeking to pursue Christ-honoring lives." —Kristin Kobes Du Mez,
Calvin University Millions are getting lost in the evangelical
maze: inerrancy, indifference to the environment, deterministic
Calvinism, purity culture, racism, LGBTQ discrimination, male
dominance, and Christian nationalism. They are now conscientious
objectors, deconstructionists, perhaps even "none and done." As one
of America's leading academics speaking to the issues of religion
today, David Gushee offers a clear assessment and a new way forward
for disillusioned post-evangelicals. Gushee starts by analyzing
what went wrong with U.S. white evangelicalism in areas such as
evangelical history and identity, biblicism, uncredible theologies,
and the fundamentalist understandings of race, politics, and
sexuality. Along the way, he proposes new ways of Christian
believing and of listening to God and Jesus today. He helps
post-evangelicals know how to belong and behave, going from where
they are to a living relationship with Christ and an intellectually
cogent and morally robust post-evangelical faith. He shows that
they can have a principled way of understanding Scripture, a
community of Christ's people, a healthy politics, and can repent
and learn to listen to people on the margins. With a foreword from
Brian McLaren, who says, “David Gushee is right: there is indeed
life after evangelicalism,” this book offers an essential
handbook for those looking for answers and affirmation of their
journey into a future that is post-evangelical but still centered
on Jesus. If you, too, are struggling, After Evangelicalism shows
that it is possible to cut loose from evangelical Christianity and,
more than that, it is necessary.
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Let's Talk (Hardcover)
Harold Heie; Foreword by Richard J Mouw; Afterword by David P. Gushee
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Practicing the Kingdom (Paperback)
Justin Bronson Barringer, Maria Russell Kenney; Foreword by David P. Gushee
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Practicing the Kingdom (Hardcover)
Justin Bronson Barringer, Maria Russell Kenney; Foreword by David P. Gushee
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Know Your Place (Hardcover)
Justin R Phillips; Foreword by David P. Gushee
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Let's Talk (Paperback)
Harold Heie; Foreword by Richard J Mouw; Afterword by David P. Gushee
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Know Your Place (Paperback)
Justin R Phillips; Foreword by David P. Gushee
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