I Believe. Help My Unbelief!
Christian Beliefs for a Religiously Pluralistic and Secular World
- Theology
- Publisher: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2024
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Publisher's Description
This innovative book introduces main Christian doctrines and beliefs for thoughtful Christians and seekers in a manner understandable and meaningful for people living in a religiously pluralistic, complex, and secular world. Different from any other titles available, it engages not only Christian tradition and Bible but also the insights from natural sciences and four living faiths and their teachings: Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. It also includes global and contextual voices such as those of women, minorities, and testimonies of the global church. Based on wide and comprehensive academic research--including the author's groundbreaking five-volume A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World (2013-17), this book is meant for a general audience, interested laypeople, lay leaders, ministers without formal academic training, and beginning theology and religion students. It is also highly useful for pastors and theologians who often find overly technical presentations less useful. The style of writing is conversational and inviting for dialogue and discussion.
Endorsements (2)
“Veli-Matti Karkkainen not only grants introductory readers a wonderfully clear and broad exposure to Christian theology, but he also helps them locate it within the larger world of religious and scientific thought. Readers from all walks of life will learn in these pages that theology can be both faithful to its sources and relevant to a broad spectrum of conversation partners.”
“Interreligious strife continues unabated; interreligious tensions also take place unwittingly in the minds of many global Christians. Technological and scientific discourse, whether it be about AI or climate change, drives our existential questions. Gratefully Veli-Matti Karkkainen's new volume of Christian doctrines comes at a critical juncture to give us wisdom and insights on knowing and living out the gospel of Jesus Christ in the midst of our maelstrom.”
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