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    After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity
    After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity
    After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity
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    After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity

    Written by David P. Gushee

    Narrated by Adam Verner

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    "Drawing on his own spiritual journey, David Gushee provides an incisive critique of American evangelicalism [and] offers a succinct yet deeply informed guide for post-evangelicals seeking to pursue Christ-honoring lives." -Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Calvin University

    Millions are getting lost in the evangelical maze: inerrancy, indifference to the environment, deterministic Calvinism, purity culture, racism, LGBTQ discrimination, male dominance, and Christian nationalism. They are now conscientious objectors, deconstructionists, perhaps even "none and done." As one of America's leading academics speaking to the issues of religion today, David Gushee offers a clear assessment and a new way forward for disillusioned post-evangelicals.

    Gushee starts by analyzing what went wrong with US white evangelicalism in areas such as evangelical history and identity, biblicism, uncredible theologies, and the fundamentalist understandings of race, politics, and sexuality. Along the way, he proposes new ways of Christian believing and of listening to God and Jesus today. He helps post-evangelicals know how to belong and behave, going from where they are to a living relationship with Christ and an intellectually cogent and morally robust post-evangelical faith. He shows that they can have a principled way of understanding Scripture, a community of Christ's people, a healthy politics, and can repent and learn to listen to people on the margins.

    With a foreword from Brian McLaren, who says, "David Gushee is right: there is indeed life after evangelicalism," this book offers an essential handbook for those looking for answers and affirmation of their journey into a future that is post-evangelical but still centered on Jesus. If you, too, are struggling, After Evangelicalism shows that it is possible to cut loose from evangelical Christianity and, more than that, it is necessary.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristianAudio.com
    Release dateAug 25, 2020
    ISBN9781545915868
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    David P. Gushee

      David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, Atlanta, Georgia. He also serves as chair in Christian social ethics at Vrije Universiteit and senior research fellow at International Baptist Theological Study Centre, both in Amsterdam. His many other books include Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: Genocide and Moral Obligation.

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    • 5/5
      A remarkable, thoughtful and confrontational book. Even as someone who was born far from the shores of the USA, the influence of the evangelical movement on my life has been both tremendous and catastrophically hurtful. This book helped me understand the social, political and historical events that shaped the monster that evangelical Christianity has become, and the many and diverse people groups that it has wronged. David Gushee writes well on a variety of subjects, and though I do not agree with him on all points of theology, I think that his honesty, integrity and deep concern for human welfare are both truly compelling and in line with the pursuit of being Christ-like. He also makes reference to many other writers and theologians, and this book has been a good starting point from which to re-examine my beliefs, and begin to reconstruct my shattered faith into something stronger, more ethical, and considerably more life-giving.

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    • 5/5
      The contribution this book makes is we indeed need a new Christianity. Unfortunately much of what passes for Christianity in America is an illegitimate form of Christianity. Although much of what Gushee says is not new it takes a white person like him to state it. He does this well. The summary for Gushee is Christianity ought to look and be like Jesus.
    • 3/5
      Liberal (Maybe Even Post-Christian?) Baptist Faith And Message. The Southern Baptist Convention's Baptist Faith and Message is the doctrinal screed for the group, listing various points of beliefs with proof-texted "reference verses" claiming to provide "evidence" that this belief is grounded in their view of the Bible. As someone who was a Southern Baptist for the first couple decades of my life, it is a document I'm pretty familiar with. Here, Gushee effectively recreates it for the more anti-white-male crowd, arguing (correctly) against prosperity theology while openly embracing humanist and liberation theology. Ultimately, he makes enough solid points to be worthy of discussion, but due to the constant proof-texting (a flaw in many similar works, and one that in my own personal war against is an automatic one star deduction in my reviews) and near-constant near straw man level attacks against more conservative theologies is to be read with a healthy amount of skepticism. That noted, as I generally try to do with such texts, I'm trying to be a bit balanced here. A much more conservative reader will probably find much more to attack in this text, and a much more liberal reader will probably find much more to love. Overall a solid work of its type, and recommended for any interested in such discussions.