Why Christian?: For Those on the Edge of Faith - Softcover

Hall, Douglas John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800631307 ISBN 13: 9780800631307

Verlag: FORTRESS PRESS, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

In these dialogues with doubt, Hall enters into an earnest search with a young inquirer--a composite of undergraduates, graduates, clergy, working people, his own children--who is on the edges of Christian faith. Half familiar with superficial aspects of Christianity, hopeful of there being greater depth than has been found so far, she or he is curious, insistent, looking for something to believe in but not ready to leap without good reason. Such a person is asking, "Why be Christian?" In a passionate and personal way, Hall probes fundamental religious questions and wrestles with the cogency of basic Christian convictions about Jesus and God, about religious belief and the human predicament, about inauthentic forms of Christianity, about what is missing in human life today. Quoting Unamuno's dictum that "Faith that does not doubt is dead faith," Hall's accessible and straightforward book helps readers to reclaim a Christianity of personal, intellectual, and moral integrity. This book may well prove a modern religious classic.

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Douglas John Hall is emeritus professor of theology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Among the most widely read theologians in North America, Hall has written many popular and acclaimed works, including Lighten Our Darkness (1976), God and Human Suffering (1987), and Why Christian? (1998), as well as a full-scale trilogy in systematic theology: Thinking the Faith (1991), Professing the Faith (1996), and Confessing the Faith (1998), all from Fortress Press.

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• Verlag: FORTRESS PRESS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0800631307
• ISBN 13: 9780800631307
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196
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