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Title: Doubts and Loves: What Is Left of Christianity by Richard Holloway ISBN: 1-84195-382-2 Publisher: Canongate Books Pub. Date: February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Christians Who Think
Comment: A sweeping generalization, but true none-the-less, is that Christians are locked in a theological view absent of metaphor. Even Christians who have chosen the cafeteria style of picking and choosing in the aisle of moral considerations are locked into fundamental beliefs vis a vis dogma, and those beliefs promote anxiety rather than life. The more-or-less progressive brethren have abandoned Creationism for evolution, but still struggle with the virgin birth, resurrection, loaves and fishes, body and blood, and etc. In "Doubts and Loves: What is Left of Christianity," Richard Holloway offers a reasoned approach that relieves dogma of the weight of institutional politics and survival, and presents a much more robust approach to Christianity. The approach isn't new, but it is presented in an intelligent, heart-felt, and easily readable style that I found quite appealing. Richard Holloway does not subvert the beauty and worth of Christianity. He preaches "orthopraxis," rather than "orthodoxy," and gives new life to faith. I recommend this book as a fresh way to approach the mysteries, and as a breath of fresh air in the musty cellars of Christian thought.
Rating: 5
Summary: Better than the others!
Comment: I agree with Publisher's Weekly positive review of " Doubts and Loves"
We can be thankful to people like Spong and Robinson for pointing out so beautifully new and authentic ways to live and believe as Christians. But I personally believe, unlike Publisher's Weekly, that Richard Holloway has done a much better job describing this. His language is clear and precise, and there is not a mean-spirited sentence in the entire book.
A book of shared faith which anyone will benefit from reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: A thoughtful bishop speaks his mind
Comment: John Spong often likes to claim Richard Holloway as his mentor. Actually the two retired bishops are not even in the same league. Spong recycles ideas familiar to anyone who has studied theology; Holloway is an original thinker who is not afraid to ask new and difficult questions and feels no need to find easy answers.
Holloway realizes that although God is eternal and unchanging, humans are not. We learn and grow and change, and so does the world we inhabit. The assumptions that used to drive the Christian church - that everyone was or should be Christian, that the church was essential to the life of every decent person, that all humanity must be converted to Christianity to save countless souls from the torments of hell - no longer seem tenable. Religion simply doesn't matter to the majority of the inhabitants of Europe and North America; Christianity is irrelevant. And this may be a good thing.
Holloway believes that the only important contribution the Christian faith can make to our world today is to teach us how to live. A Christian is someone who dares to attempt to live like the penniless, powerless Galilean peasant who suffered and died for his God 2000 years ago. Christianity calls us to a life of risk and powerlessness, not a life of self-righteous justification. The faith will survive, but not with all its certainties intact.
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Title: Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out of Ethics by Richard Holloway ISBN: 0862419093 Publisher: Canongate Books Pub. Date: 09 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable? by Richard Holloway ISBN: 184195358X Publisher: Canongate Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Beyond Belief : The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels ISBN: 0375501568 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith by Marcus J. Borg ISBN: 0060526769 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Christianity Without God by Lloyd George Geering ISBN: 0944344925 Publisher: Polebridge Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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