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Title: Basic Christianity by John R. W. Stott ISBN: 0-8028-1189-2 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: September, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (14 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good reading...
Comment: If the average non Christian consumer were to begin considering conversion, spending less than an hour perusing a Christian book section or facing the lists of churches in the Yellow Pages would be enough to confuse them to the point of reconsidering. Christians come in all shapes, sizes, and variants. Although Paul encouraged unity in the Body of Christ, it has never been achieved. What we all agree on is a short list.
Despite that, there are some essentials that belong in every church, whether Baptist, Catholic, Pentecostal, or non Demoninational. John Stott has taken the vital facts that you must believe to be called Christian and placed them in a straightforward easy to read book. With a precision akin to Lee Strobel's Case for Christ, he lines out the ABC's of faith. The logic of the Resurrection to the deeper meanings in the Ten Commandments are laid out concisely.
*** Long time believers may not have any "aha" moments, but if they read this, they will have more to defend their faith than "it's true because it is written and I believe it." New believers or seekers will know what is most basic without the rigamorole variations that difer from sect to sect. ***
Amanda Killgore
Rating: 4
Summary: A helpful, if incomplete, introduction to the gospel
Comment: Although I wouldn't rank this book as high up as, say, C.S. Lewis' _Mere Christianity_, I would still recommend it for a basic introduction to Christianity. Beginning with a few chapters on the evidence of Christ's ministry on earth, Stott continues on to show that all are sinners, and that we all have a need for the forgiveness Christ offers in the cross. This was all great and encouraging reading.
The last few chapters -- covering the appropriate response to what the previous chapters explained -- left me a little unsatisfied. Stott valuably explained the need to count the cost of submitting to Christ's lordship, but he offered scant advice on how to live after becoming a Christian, and what Christians' purpose is on earth. What little he *did* say was good, but in a primer on the Christian faith, I would like to see more about how to live in the church, and how to advance Christ's kingdom on earth. A little more practical advice here and there would have been nice.
So, good stuff. But _Mere Christianity_ is still my favorite.
Rating: 2
Summary: What gives?
Comment: A thread of unconscious doubt runs through this book. Whence do we get "intellectual suicide" as a non-requirement to consider the deity of Jesus (pg 8)? What compels Stott to say he is not saying something, not saying "...we should suspend rational thinking" to discover God (pg 16)? Why does Stott raise the specter of doubt while exhorting treatment of the Gospels "...as the historical documents they undoubtably are" (pg 22)? The topper has Christians "...not a self-regarding coterie of smug and selfish prigs who are interested only in themselves" (pg 140). An honest treatment of Christianity is not found here.
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Title: Understanding the Bible by John R. W. Stott ISBN: 0310414318 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis ISBN: 0060652926 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 05 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Knowing God by J. I. Packer ISBN: 083081650X Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: December, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Cross of Christ by John R. W. Stott ISBN: 0877849986 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: December, 1986 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon D. Fee, Douglas Stuart ISBN: 0310384915 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 08 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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