Week(s) in Review

Week(s) in Review

Over the next two weeks we will be looking at reviews of several popular books in Christianity and spirituality today. As these books become increasingly popular, it becomes increasingly necessary for the Church to be able to interact critically with the views these books express. Often, books that question the tenets of Christianity find such a large readership because they are wrestling with issues that the Church itself has either remained silent on or treated inadequately.

I heard a quote given in response to a news report which stated that some 30% of people who label themselves as Christian doubt God exists.

"In some cases, because the American public is not terribly theologically literate, they hold contradictory view because they haven't thought deeply, or been taught deeply, about their faith tradition."

Hopefully, through engaging contemporary popular literature in a way that is distinctly Christian, the Church can stem the tide of theological illiteracy.


On the agenda for the weeks ahead:

- (3/9) god is not Great; How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens

- (3/12) The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins

- (3/16) Jesus Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them), by Bart Ehrman

- (3/19) The Shack, by William Young


- J.W.