What We Talk About When We Talk About God: A

by Rob Bell

Overview

How God is described today strikes many as mean, primitive, backward, illogical, tribal, and at odds with the frontiers of science. At the same time, many intuitively feel a sense of reverence and awe in the world. Can we find a new way to talk about God?

Pastor and New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell does here for God what he did for heaven and hell in Love Wins: he shows how traditional ideas have grown stale and dysfunctional and reveals a new path for how to return vitality and vibrancy to how we understand God. Bell reveals how we got stuck, why culture resists certain ways of talking about God, and how we can reconnect with the God who is with us, for us, and ahead of us, pulling us forward into a better future—and ready to help us live life to the fullest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062389374
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/02/2014
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	821 KB

About the Author

Rob Bell is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and spiritual teacher. His books include Love Wins, How to Be Here, What We Talk About When We Talk About God, Velvet Elvis, The Zimzum of Love, Sex God, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, and Drops Like Stars. He hosts the weekly podcast The Robcast, which was named by iTunes as one of the best of 2015. He was profiled in The New Yorker and in TIME Magazine as one of 2011’s hundred most influential people. He and his wife, Kristen, have three children and live in Los Angeles.

Hometown:

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Date of Birth:

August 23, 1970

Place of Birth:

Lansing, Michigan

Education:

B.S., Wheaton College, 1992; M. Div., Fuller Seminary, 1995

Editorial Reviews

Rob Bell’s new book is good news for people who want nothing to do with religion. However, it may be even better news for those of us who are deeply committed to the faith but see that religion is way off track.

Mennonite World Review

Twenty years from now, we may look back from a radically new evangelicalism and see Rob Bell at the center of the shift. . . . Bell has never been afraid to push the envelope on what we know–or think we know–about God.

Relevant Magazine

Bell is at the forefront of a rethinking of Christianity in America.

TIME

Bell is at the forefront of a rethinking of Christianity in America.

Time magazine

Rob Bell is shaking up the way we think about God and religion. I love his new book. When I first started reading it, I was highlighting my favorite passages, and then I thought, what’s the point? I’ve marked every page! …What I mean by a ‘super soulful’ book.

Oprah Winfrey

Time and again, Bell challenges the reader to be open to surprise, mystery and all of the unanswerables contained within the ‘wide stream’ called Christianity.

Christian Century

[Bell is] one of the most influential Christian leaders in the country.

The New Yorker

"Bell is at the forefront of a rethinking of Christianity in America."

Time Magazine

What We Talk About When We Talk About God challenges conventional notions of God as an otherworldly divine being set apart from humanity, opposed to science and insistent on a conservative interpretation of the Bible. Instead, Bell argues that God is more clearly perceived during moments like, well, surfing.

Orange County Register

One of the country’s most influential... pastors.

New York Times