Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted - Softcover

Beck, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150640135X ISBN 13: 9781506401355

Verlag: Fortress Press,U.S., 2016

Inhaltsangabe

The devil has fallen on hard times. Surveys say that even the majority of Christians doubt Satans existence. Burdened by doubts, skeptical believers find themselves divorced from Jesus dramatic confrontation with Satan in the Gospels and from the struggle that galvanized the early church.

In Reviving Old Scratch, popular blogger and theologian Richard Beck reintroduces the devil to the modern world with a biblical, bold, and urgent vision of spiritual warfare: we must resist the devil by joining the kingdom of Gods subversive campaign to interrupt the world with love.

Beck shows how conservative Christians too often overspiritualize the devil and demons, and progressive Christians reduce these forces to social justice issues. By understanding evil as a very real force in the world, we are better able to name it for what it is and thus to combat it as Jesus did.

Becks own work in a prison Bible study and at a church for recovering addicts convinced him to take Satan more seriously, and they provide compelling illustrations as he challenges the contemporaryand strangely safeversions of evil forces. The beliefs of liberals and conservatives alike will be tested by Becks groundbreaking ideas, fascinating stories, and clear thinking. Because if Jesus took Satan seriously, says Beck, then so should we.

Winner of the 2017 Book of the Year Award from The Academy of Parish Clergy!

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Richard Beck is professor of psychology at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, and a popular blogger and speaker. He is the author of several books, most recently Trains, Jesus, and Murder. His published research also covers topics as diverse as the psychology of profanity and why Christian bookstore art is so bad. Beck leads a Bible study each week for inmates at a maximum security prison.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fortress Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 150640135X
• ISBN 13: 9781506401355
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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