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Synopsis: In this provocative, entertaining book, author David Dark writes, “The summons to sacred questioning, like a call to honesty, like a call to prayer, is a call to be true and to let the chips fall where they may.” Far from being a sign of cynicism or weakness, questions are not only positive but crucial for our health and well-being.
Click for product description and detailsISBN: 0310286182, ISBN-13: 9780310286189, UPC: 025986286187
Features: Discussion/Study Questions included
Suggested Uses: Spiritual GrowthAges: Adult
Related Product Types: Spiritual Formation
Endorsements for The Sacredness of Questioning Everything:David Dark is my favorite critic of the people’s culture of America and the Christian faith. He brings a deep sense of reverence to every book he reads, every song he hears, every movie he sees, but it is a discerning reverence—attentive to truth and Jesus wherever he comes on them. He is also a reliable lie detector. And not a dull sentence in the book. —
Eugene Peterson, professor emeritus of spiritual theology, translator of The Message David Dark is one of our wisest authors, and I plan to read everything he writes. The Sacredness of Questioning Everything will comfort questioners, doubters, and skeptics with assurance that their questions can be faithful, and it will challenge the complacent with an ethical summons to wonder. It invites everything to give life—and faith—a second thought, and did I mention that it’s beautifully written? —
Brian McLaren, Author, Everything Must Change Brilliant and charming and insightful as always, Dark comforts both my soul and my mind with this synthesis, part memoir and part essay, of the culture around us and the culture within us. —
Phyllis Tickle, Author, The Great Emergence More Endorsements
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In this provocative, entertaining book, author David Dark writes, “The summons to sacred questioning, like a call to honesty, like a call to prayer, is a call to be true and to let the chips fall where they may.” Far from being a sign of cynicism or weakness, questions are not only positive but crucial for our health and well-being.
Description: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?
The freedom to question is an indispensable and sacred practice that is absolutely vital to the health of our communities.
According to author David Dark, when religion won’t tolerate questions, objections, or differences of opinion, and when it only brings to the table threats of excommunication, violence, and hellfire, it obstructs our ability to think, empathize, and live lives of authenticity and genuine engagement.
The God of the Bible not only encourages questions; the God of the Bible demands them. If that were not so, we wouldn’t live in a world of such rich, God-given complexity in which wide-eyed wonder is part and parcel of the human condition. The possibility of redemption and revolution depends on the questions we ask of God, governments, media, and everyday economies.
It is by way of the questions that we resist the conformity that deadens and come alive to visions that redeem.
Book & Bible Cover Size: MediumPage Count: 272
Paper Edge Description: Plain
Size: 5.4 wide x 8 high x 0.7 deep in. | 137 wide x 203 high x deep 17 mm
Weight: 0.655 lb | 296 gms
Available: April 2009
WorldPublisher: Zondervan
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