Kerra Becker English

Living Belief

Theology

“Douglas Ottati takes the words so many Christians know by heart and mines them for meaning with his perpetually curious theological mind. This exploration of the Christian faith begins, like all great quests, by questioning the familiar and challenging what we think we know. Generations of Christians have stood in church mumbling through, ‘I believe in God the Father Almighty,’ without thinking much about what they are saying. Ottati reminds us how and why the beliefs of the Creed center our devotional life and shape how we see ourselves as communities of the faithful. In the triune formula of the Apostles’ Creed and through the template of the Lord’s Prayer, in the Law of Moses and through Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount, ancient words become fresh again when we truly seek to make them our own. Douglas Ottati has always been my go-to guide for this timeless journey.”