Rescuing religion
Subtitle: how faith can survive its encounter with science
By: John Van Hagen
Publisher: Polebridge Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Salem, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781598150377
Subjects: Religion and science; Apologetics; Church history
Description: John Van Hagen grapples with the tension created by science's challenges to the historicity of the major Bible stories: Moses never existed, Jesus did not start a church. He argues that the challenges of modern scholarship present an opportunity for religious growth. We can now go behind the biblical stories and glimpse the storytellers who suffered enormous crises of faith. Their struggles, in turn, will inspire us as we face our own global challenges.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginning the journey; title: The story of Joshua and his warrior god; title: Viktor Frankl and the search for meaning; title: The Jesus of history and the Christ of faith dissonance and dialectics; title: The miraculous conception of the first-century Christian community; title: The development of second-century Christianity from paralyzing trauma to new identity; title: Barack Obama and the journey to community; title: The biblical narrative, what's your story?; title: Rituals for better or worse; title: Religion and science in loyal opposition; title: Mikhail Gorbachev and the collision of faith and fact.