The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to God: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Almighty: 3 (Homebrewed Christianity Series) - Softcover

Eric E. Hall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150640572X ISBN 13: 9781506405728

Publisher: 1517 Media; Fortress Press, 2016

Synopsis

Is God the First Cause? The Unmoved Mover? Mr. Miyagi? In this latest installment of the Homebrewed Christianity series, edited by Tripp Fuller, Eric E. Hall approaches the question of God from various perspectives, including philosophy, personal revelation, Christian tradition, and other religions. The classical conception of God is like the famously stoic-yet-lethal character in the Karate Kid. Competing versions of God include Your Hippie Aunt, St. Joan of Arc, and even the muscle-headed goons from Jersey Shore. Hall uses each of these analogies to elucidate a version of God that has held sway at one point or another. For each, he shows strengths and weaknesses, pros and cons. After proposing this nouveau-pantheon, Hall takes on atheism, religion versus science, and popular images of Jesus. At the end of this romp through history and pop culture, Hall argues that the God you need may be the very God you rejected years ago.

About this title

About the Author:

Eric E. Hall is the Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen Professor of Peace and Social Justice, teaching theology and philosophy at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. He's the author of The Paradox of Authenticity (2015) and a noted lecturer on faith and reason.

About this edition

• Publisher: 1517 Media; Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 150640572X
• ISBN 13: 9781506405728
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190
• Editor: Eric E. Hall, Tripp Fuller