What Does a Progressive Christian Believe?: A Guide for the Searching, the Open, and the Curious

by Delwin Brown

Overview

A systematic understanding of progressive Christianity and the reasons for them.
Progressive Christianity is a family of perspectives that vigorously rejects the “religious right” as a gross distortion of the Christian faith. Just as important, progressive Christianity criticizes and moves beyond the (other) conservatisms and the liberalisms of the immediate Christian past. This book presents one progressive Christian standpoint—introductory in character for ordinary people, not specialist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596270848
Publisher:	Church Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/01/2008
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Delwin Brown is Dean Emeritus of the Pacific School of Religion and formerly the Harvey H. Potthoff Professor of Christian Theology at Iliff School of Theology. The author of many books and articles, he is a lay member of the United Methodist Church and resides in Oakland, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     ix
Preface     xi
What Progressive Christianity Is Not     1
Bible: Negotiating the Heritage     15
Christ: Overturning the Categories     29
God: Exploring the Depth     43
Humanity: Continuing the Creation     57
Sin: Failing and Hiding     69
Salvation: Seeking and Finding     83
Church: Serving and Being Served     95
Epilogue: Rightly Mixing Religion with Politics     111
Notes     123