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Ladataan... Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion (vuoden 2019 painos)Tekijä: Rebecca McLaughlin (Tekijä)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion By Rebecca McLaughlin 2019, Crossway Books Hardcover, 240pp "We are inclined to assume that we are more sophisticated than a text written thousands of years ago." This is one of the finest offerings of Christian apologetics in this century. Expecting to find another trite attempt to square Christian theology with reality, McLaughlin brings sharp intelligence, compassion, thorough research, and hard data to the table. And she doesn't shy away from anything. Like the subtitle says, she takes on the hard questions: Why does a loving God allow so much suffering? Is Christianity homophobic? Are we better off without religion? Her take on the seven-blind-people-touching-the-elephant analogy expresses the calm, careful demeanor with which McLaughlin exposes some of the best defeaters for Christianity and levels the playing field once again. näyttää 3/3 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Religion's decline in the modern world turns out to be a myth. Christianity is the most widespread global belief system, and promises to remain so well into the future. But for many educated westerners, biblical Christianity is a dangerous idea-challenging some of their deepest beliefs. Channeling state-of-the-art research, personal stories, and careful biblical study, Confronting Christianity explores twelve questions that keep many of us from considering faith in Christ. Look more closely, McLaughlin argues, and the reality of suffering, the complexity of sexuality, the desire for diversity, the success of science, and other seeming roadblocks to faith become signposts. Jesus becomes not a relic from the ancient world, but our modern world's best hope. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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"If you care about diversity, don’t dismiss Christianity: it is the most diverse, multiethnic, and multicultural movement in all of history."
"When atheists reject Christianity because of the evils done in the name of religion, we must recognize that evil has also been done in the name of science. And that it is ultimately only a religious worldview that enables us to diagnose evil as evil."
“ 'Helper' sounds like a subordinate role. But in the Hebrew Scriptures, the word helper is overwhelmingly applied to God himself, so it cannot imply inferior status."
"God created sex and marriage as a telescope to give us a glimpse of his star-sized desire for intimacy with us."
"God’s love and God’s judgement cannot be pulled apart. Think of your anger at the slave trade, the Holocaust, and global sex trafficking. When you analyze that anger, its root is love. No one who regards those of other races as subhuman cares about racial exploitation. Noe one who believes that women or children are property cares about sexual abuse. And the more we love, the more easily our anger is kindled…..Imagine that this kind of love-motivated anger is so deeply entrenched in the heart of God that your own commitment to justice is like a drop in the ocean."
"Sam Harris argues that our recognition that human beings do not have free will should make us more compassionate for murderers. They were just unlucky in their circumstances, not morally culpable. Christianity also demand that we identify with the worst criminals, but on different grounds: not because they (like us) are innocent but because we (like them) are guilty."
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