Today I received my copy of Brian McLaren’s new book, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming The Faith. I haven’t so eagerly anticipated a book in months. Needless to say, this one will warrant a thorough blogging-through-the-book, so I’m looking forward to doing a series of posts over the next few weeks. This book spins of the title of his first hit written a decade ago, A New Kind of Christian, a book that was deeply transformational to me. This new book explores the 10 most often ask questions McLaren encounters all over the world from pastors and lay-leaders of the emerging, postmodern church.
The 10 Questions:
1. The Narrative Question: what is the overarching story line of the Bible?
2. The Authority Question: how should the Bible be understood?
3. The God Question: is God violent?
4. The Jesus Question: Who is Jesus and why is he improtant?
5. The Gospel Question: what is the Gospel?
6. The Church Question: what do we do about the church?
7. The Sex Question: can we find a way to address human sexuality without fighting about it?
8. The Future Question: can we find a better way of viewing the future?
9. The Pluralism Question: how should followers of Jesus relate to people of other religions?
10. The What-Do-We-Do-Now Question: how can we translate our quest into action?
McLaren will soon be uploading a weekly video channel at theooze.tv. McLaren also uploaded two chapters to his site that did not make it into the final cut, which I’m uploading here for anyone to download:
1. Making eschatology personal
2. A New Kind of Bible Reading
I know it’s a bit early, but I’m going to go ahead an declare this will be the most important book of 2010 for the church to grapple with.
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