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By John E. Bowers

ISBN-10: 1620329298

ISBN-13: 9781620329290

This booklet is aimed toward these Christians who've all started to question the traditional understandings of Jesus, and Christianity, or even of what we suggest by means of "God," and became discomforted through the dissonance among their very own pondering and the church's stance.
A severe philosopher by means of inclination and schooling, Jack Bowers explored Celtic Christian spirituality for a decade. That taught him there are alternative routes to reside out the Christian religion than what we've got been advised via Rome and Protestantism. Upon retirement in 1998, not professionally required to mirror traditional theology, his trust constitution started to wander, heavily re-examining all he had taught and believed. Having heard whispered rumors in more youthful years of clergymen "losing their faith," as an alternative he felt he used to be no longer wasting his theology yet turning out to be it.
This quantity leads you thru the evolution of his ideals to what he can converse out with self assurance right away, knowing that as he maintains to develop and adventure this international, and optimistically get a bit wiser, his ideals will evolve but farther. He invitations you into this demanding non secular pilgrimage to find what you could hopefully think in 2016 AD.

"Jack Bowers is a crucial voice for these people who've outgrown our early life religion in God as an previous guy within the sky meting out favors like Santa Claus. He speaks to, and for, innovative Christians who now not wish or desire ideas, rubric, confessions, and creeds so one can worship, yet have matured to redefine what faith/religion potential to us now."
--Diane H. Berger, United Church of Christ

"This ebook bargains a stringent advisor to someone heavily exploring the probabilities of a post-Christian, trustworthy global. Written in a spirit of acute honesty, it supplies the reader a step by step highbrow experience during which reader and writer paintings towards a hard-won, hopeful imaginative and prescient of redemptive human possibility."
--Barry L. Cotter, Episcopal priest, retired

"Bowers' booklet seriously questions, deeply probes, and re-creates. All who're wondering, or have left, Christianity simply because they can't settle for literal or superseded 'me first' interpretations of its alleged doctrines, have to learn and think of this book.
--Ronald E. Santoni, Maria Theresa Barney Chair and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Denison college; writer of Sartre on Violence: apparently Ambivalent

"Bowers invitations us to pay attention in as he thinks out loud approximately how his religion has replaced and grown through the years. he is been a loyal priest all his grownup existence, yet his religion isn't really static. Bowers refuses to prevent asking questions, to prevent starting to be. if you happen to settle for his invitation, you can be challenged. you'll end up agreeing--and disagreeing the very subsequent paragraph. Your religion could be the greater for the exercise."
--Richard L. Ullman, Episcopal Priest, retired

The Rev. John E. (Jack) Bowers, a son of Ohio and graduate of Walnut Hills in Cincinnati, of Kenyon collage, and of Bexley corridor Seminary (now Bexley Seabury), served a brief stint as a commissioned officer within the U.S. army aboard the USS Wilhoite DER-397. After ordination he pastored numerous small Episcopal congregations within the Diocese of Southern Ohio for over thirty-four years, preaching and educating very traditional theology prior to his retirement in 1998.

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