The Last Word And The Word After That.The Last Word And The Word After That Brian McLaren Brian D. McLaren is a prominent, controversial voice in the Emerging Church movement. He was recognized as one of Time magazine's "25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America,"[1] Jossey-Bass, Inc. DeChant Huges Associates (publicity) 989 Market Street, 5th floor, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , CA 94103-1741 0787975923 $21.95 1-800-225-5945 www.josseybass.com www.anewkindofchristian.com The Last Word And The Word After That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, And A New Kind Of Christianity by Brian McLaren (Founding Pastor of nondenominational non·de·nom·i·na·tion·al adj. Not restricted to or associated with a religious denomination. Adj. 1. nondenominational - not restricted to a particular religious denomination; "a nondenominational church" Cedar Ridge Community Church) challenges Chrsitians to rethink their assumptions about hell while offering a new understanding of God's justice and mercy. The sequel to "A New Kind of Christian" and "The Story We Find Ourselves In", The Last Word And The Word After That is written in the style of a narrative novel but focuses on a discourse about what hell really is and how Christians conceive of Verb 1. conceive of - form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" envisage, ideate, imagine it. Conventional doctrine is all too quick to portray God as a sociopath so·ci·o·path n. A person affected with an antisocial personality disorder. so  ci·o·path , loving one minute and vicious the next.
Through soul-searching dialogues, the characters of The Last Word And
The Word After That debunk de·bunk tr.v. de·bunked, de·bunk·ing, de·bunks To expose or ridicule the falseness, sham, or exaggerated claims of: debunk a supposed miracle drug. common misperceptions of the depiction of hell in Scripture--many of its fiery notions actually come from the poets Dante and John Milton, and hell is not revealed in the Old Testament; it is first mentioned by Jesus. A challenging, emotional, and faitfhully resonant examination of belief, what it means, and new ways of understanding divine justice, punishment, and the problem of evil. |
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