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    Paradoxology: Why Christianity Was Never Meant to Be Simple

    By Krish Kandiah

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    It seems that the God of the Christian faith is full of paradoxes:

    • a compassionate God who sanctions genocide
    • an all-powerful God who allows horrific suffering
    • a God who owns everything yet demands so much from his followers
    • a God who is distant and yet present at the same time

    Many of us have big questions about God that the Christian faith seems to leave unanswered, so we push them to the back of our minds for fear of destabilizing our beliefs. But leaving these questions unexamined is neither healthy for us nor honoring to God. Rather than shying away from the difficult questions, we need to face them head on. What if the tension between apparently opposing doctrines is exactly where faith comes alive? What if this ancient faith has survived so long not in spite of but precisely because of these apparent contradictions? What if it is in the difficult parts of the Bible that God is most clearly revealed? In his new book Paradoxology Krish Kandiah makes a bold new claim: that the paradoxes that seem like they ought to undermine belief are actually the heart of our vibrant faith, and it is only by continually wrestling with them—rather than trying to pin them down or push them away—that we can really move forward, individually and together.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateJan 14, 2017
    ISBN9780830897728
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    Paradoxology: Why Christianity Was Never Meant to Be Simple
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    Krish Kandiah

    Dr Krish Kandiah is the founding director of Home For Good, a young charity seeking to make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable children by finding loving homes for children in the care system. He is an advocate for fostering and adoption. Dr Kandiah has been published in the Times of London and The Guardian, and is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 2. He has written 13 books. His Monarch books include: Only the Brave, Back to the Source, Route 66, and Life Swap. Dr Kandiah holds degrees in Chemistry, Missiology and Theology. He lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and 7 children.

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