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Beyond Tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America (The Documents of 20th-century art)

Gustav Niebuhr

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A bracing rejoinder both to religious fanaticism and to recent books decrying religion

The United States is the most religiously diverse nation in the world and the most religiously diverse collection of people in history. And even in this age of increasing religious violence, there is a growing movement of cooperation: thousands of devout worshippers who are willing to take a gamble on people of radically different faiths.

In this insightful, deeply felt examination of the nature of community and religion, former New York Times religion reporter Gustav Niebuhr traces the roots of religious freedom in America and the setbacks and triumphs it has encountered along the way. From Hindus and Quakers in Queens to Catholics and Jews in Baltimore, to black Baptists and Catholics in Louisville, to Catholics and Buddhists in Los Angeles, Niebuhr focuses on the ways people build ties between groups. He looks at why this movement is a particularly American endeavor and how it can save us all. Beyond Tolerance is a handbook for religious cooperation in our fractured times.

The Gospel of Inclusion: Reaching Beyond Religious Fundamentalism to the True Love of God and Self

Carlton Pearson

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Fourth-generation fundamentalist Carlton Pearson, a Christian megastar and host, takes a courageous and controversial stand on religion that proposes a hell-less Christianity and a gospel of inclusion that calls for an end to local and worldwide conflicts and divisions along religious lines.

The Gospel of Inclusion explores the exclusionary doctrines in mainstream religion and concludes that according to the evidence of the Bible and irrefutable logic, they cannot be true. Bishop Pearson argues that the controlling dogmas of religion are the source of much of the world's ills and that we should turn our backs on proselytizing and holy wars and focus on the real good news: that we are all bound for glory, everybody is saved, and if we believe God loves all mankind, then we have no choice but to have the same attitude ourselves.

The Gospel of Inclusion also tells the story of a powerful religious figure who watched everything he had crumble due to a scandal. Why? He didn't steal money nor did he have inappropriate sexual relationships. Following a revelation from God, he began to preach that a loving God would not condemn most of the human race to hell because they are not Christian. Hepreaches that God belongs to no religion. The Gospel of Inclusion is the journey of one man's quest to preach a new truth.

Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship

Lesslie Newbigin

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This book is a blast of fresh air. 5 out of 5 stars.
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I believe Lesslie Newbigin is a great saint of the Church. His book, "Proper Confidence," is an invigorating defense of the synthesis of faith, reason and discipleship. He reclaims theology for the Church. What I found especially refreshing was his head-on challenge to the Enlightenment-rationalist boxes that modern scholars have constructed to contain Christianity. Newbigin confirms what I have long suspected from my Biblical studies classes at seminary; that instructors rule out certain possibilities that do not fit in with the paradigms that press down upon most seminaries like a totalitarian dictatorship. Since it is not "rational" to believe in supernatural events, the possibility that Scripture has been divinely inspired as it appears is ruled out. The funny thing is, the professors have no more evidence for their theories than I do for a claim that the Holy Spirit is responsible for the similarities between various Gospels. Instead, the professors literally must *invent* a common source (that no one has ever found) in order to shoe-horn the Bible into an Enlightenment framework. Thus, instead of the academy serving the Church and God (which is really what a seminary should be doing), God's Word is made to serve the biases of the academy. Instructors who formally profess belief in the Trinity fall at the feet of the "historical-critical method" of Biblical interpretation. That is, I believe, tragically misguided. Lesslie Newbigin's book gives faithful people the intellectual skills to finally fight back and hopefully reclaim academic theology for the Church.

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Looking to end the divisive conflict tht has raged between Christians who attack each other either as "liberals" or as "fundamentalists", Newbigin gives a historical account of the roots of this conflict in order to begin laying the foundation for a middle ground that will benefit the Christian faith as a whole and allow Christians to unitedly proclaim the gospel in a pluralistic world.

The Eucharist and Ecumenism: Let us Keep the Feast (Current Issues in Theology)

George Hunsinger

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The theology of the Eucharist has long been the subject of heated debate, particularly since the Reformation. George Hunsinger's book explores ways in which Christians might resolve their differences in this area. With the aim of fostering ecumenical convergence, he tackles three key issues dividing the churches about the Eucharist: real presence, Eucharistic sacrifice, and ordained ministry. Hunsinger, a Protestant theologian in the Reformed tradition, brings Eastern Orthodox views more systematically into the discussion than has been common in the West. He also discusses the social significance of the Eucharist. His detailed conclusion summarizes and clarifies the argument as a whole with an eye to explaining how the views proposed in the book could lead the churches, beginning with the Reformed church, closer to the day when obstacles to Eucharistic sharing are overcome.

Lesslie Newbigin: Missionary Theologian: a Reader

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Future of Christian Learning, The: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue

Mark A., Noll, James, Turner

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Evangelicals and Roman Catholics have been responsible for the establishment of many colleges and universities in America. Until recently, however, they have taken very different approaches to the subject of education and have viewed one another's traditions with suspicion. In this volume, Mark Noll and James Turner offer critical but appreciative reassessments of the two traditions. Noll, writing from an evangelical perspective, and Turner, from a Roman Catholic perspective, consider the respective strengths and weaknesses of each approach and what they might learn from the other. The authors then provide brief responses to each other's essays. Thoughtful readers from both traditions will find insightful and challenging ideas regarding the importance of Christian learning and the role of faith in the modern college or university. EXCERPT In many respects, the current volume . . . touch[es] upon three issues: intellectual engagement, tradition, and ecumenism. The basic idea behind the project was to bring [together] a leading American evangelical scholar and a leading American Catholic scholar, both familiar with their own tradition, with one another's tradition, and with the general landscape of "Christian learning," understood to mean what goes on at actual institutions of higher education, as well as the broader world of academic scholarship. Once this goal was formulated, two names quickly leaped to mind: Mark Noll and James Turner--scholars whom I have long suspected might be American reincarnations of the (irenic, erudite) Protestant reformer Philipp Melanchthon and the (irenic, erudite) Catholic humanist Desiderius Erasmus. . . . As planning processes got under way, however, Mark Noll accepted an endowed chair at Notre Dame, bringing his long and distinguished tenure at Wheaton [College] to an end and thereby making among his first tasks in his new post a toe-to-toe encounter with his new colleague and (then-serving) departmental chair, James Turner! Thus our dialogue lost the symbolism of confessionally contrasting institutions, even as we retained the intellectual firepower of the invitees. As readers will discover, those [at the conference] were rewarded with a heady mix of hard-earned erudition, theological commitment, and gracious eloquence--all focused on what I am persuaded are among the more interesting and consequential developments in recent decades: points of (promising) contact and (lingering) conflict between evangelical and Catholic approaches to higher education and scholarship.

A New Handbook of Christian Theology

Donald W. Musser

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A concise and thorough introduction to the major themes of contemporary Christianity that demonstrates the context and connections of important Christian ideas, trends, and doctrines and offers an authoritative reference. Includes a selected bibliography and suggested readings.

Christianity and the World Religions: Paths to Dialogue With Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism

Hans Kung

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Protestants & Catholics: Do They Now Agree?

John Ankerberg, John Weldon

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Pope Fiction 1 out of 5 stars.
15 of 25 people found this review helpful.

As a former conservative Evangelical who found himself slowly, by the grace of God led to full communion with the Catholic Church, I plead with any Protestant considering this book as a source of insight into Catholicism to look elsewhere. It is a shame and disservice to the Gospel of Christ.

Even if you can't see Catholics are your brothers in Christ (though we see you in that way), it's important to understand what they truly believe. You'll find nothing here but distortions, bad scholarship or worse. Lies serve only father of lies.

Even if you desire nothing but material to oppose us, read one of the Protestant converts to Catholicism like Scott Hahn ("Rome Sweet Home"), Mark Shea ("By what Authority?"), or Karl Keating ("Catholicism and Fundamentalism"). At least then you can oppose true Catholicism and not this fiction created by Ankerberg and Weldon.

The Debate over Christianity 2 out of 5 stars.
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A more appropriate title for this book is how to hate catholicism. I feel that I have joined a religious cult just by reading this book. By stereotyping catholics, it lends no justice to its comparisons. Calling the arguments biased is an understatement. Perhaps if the author knew something about catholicism, he could make an intelligent argument. Instead, he bring us down to his level.

This book was recommended by a teacher of mine. Based on his recommendation, I have lost faith in him. I would have thought he had stronger reasoning ability to form independent thought.

Unfinished Church: A Brief History of the Formation of the United Methodist Church

Paul Washburn

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