A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today - Softcover

Kristian, Bonnie

 
9781478992097: A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1478992093 ISBN 13: 9781478992097
Publisher: FaithWords, 2018

Synopsis

BONNIE KRISTIAN shows that a vibrant diversity within Christian orthodoxy-which is simply to say a range of different ways to faithfully follow Jesus-is a strength of our faith, not a weakness.

It is all too easy to fail to grasp the diversity of the Christian faith-especially for those who have grown up in one branch of the church and never explored another. We fail to realize how many ways there are to follow Jesus, convinced that our own tradition is the one Christian alternative to nonbelief.

A FLEXIBLE FAITH is written for the convinced and confused believer alike. It is a readable exploration of the lively theological diversity that stretches back through church history and across the spectrum of Christianity today. It is an easy introduction to how Christians have historically answered key questions about what it means to follow Jesus. Chapters will include 17 big theological questions and answers; profiles of relevant figures in church history; discussion questions; single-page Q&As-profiles of more unusual types of Christians (e.g., a Catholic nun or a member of an Amish community); and a guide to major Christian denominations today.

As Bonnie shares her wrestlings with core issues-such as who Jesus is, what place the Church has in our lives, how to disagree yet remain within a community, and how to love the Bible for what it actually is-she teaches us how to walk courageously through our own tough questions.

Following Jesus is big and it is something that individual believers, movements, and denominations have expressed in uncountably different ways over the centuries. In the process of helping us sort things out, Bonnie shows us how to be comfortable with diversity in the Body. And as we learn to hold questions in one hand and answers in the other, we will discover new depths of faith that will remain secure even through the storms of life.

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About the Author

BONNIE KRISTIAN is a theological and political writer with a national following. She is the weekend editor at The Week, a syndicated columnist with Rare, and a foreign policy fellow at Defense Priorities.

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Publisher
FaithWords
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1478992093
ISBN 13 
9781478992097
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
224