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The Future of Faith

By: Harvey Cox
Narrated by: Don Hagen
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“A beautiful book and a Cox classic….Readers will be grateful that they joined him on his journey.” —E.J. Dionne Jr., author of Souled Out

“Insightful, provocative, and inspiring—I even found myself uttering a hearty evangelical ‘Amen!’” —Richard Mouw, President, Fuller Theological Seminary, and author of Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport

The Future of Faith is Harvard religion scholar Harvey Cox’s landmark exploration of why Christian dogmatism is giving way to a grassroots Christianity rooted in social justice and spirituality. Cox laid the groundwork for modern religious writing with his 1965 classic, The Secular City, paving the way for writers like Diana Butler Bass, Karen Armstrong, Stephen Prothero, and Deepak Chopra, who calls The Future of Faith “a fresh vision for the resurrection of a new global Christianity.”

Christianity History Spirituality Women Middle Ages Middle East Tradition
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The professor has lots of insights into the future of the church. At the same time though, his own theological agenda seems to compromise his academic integrity at numerous points.

He depicts the first few centuries of the church’s existence as being a time when various versions of Christianity flourished and there was great tolerance. It’s as if he has never read the epistles of Saint Paul.

Lots of insights but blinkered at points

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