11 Genetic Gateways to Spiritual Awakening [Paperback]

Leonard Sweet (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Abingdon Press (February 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0687051738
• ISBN-13: 978-0687051731
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #493,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Len Sweet (www.leonardsweet.com) was born of a mixed marriage: his mother was a fiery Pilgrim Holiness-ordained preacher from the mountains of West Virginia and his quiet father a Free Methodist lay leader from the Adirondack mountains of upstate New York. After a deconversion at 17, when Len set about less sowing wild oats than planting prairies, he became an atheist intellectual and scholar dedicated to exposing the nincompoopery and poppycockery, if not tomfoolery and skullduggery of all religions. After this seven-year period of liminality, Len came back to the faith of his ancestors, where he has been ever since, exploring the "insterstices" and "semiotics" of religion, culture and history. He uses two words to describe himself: semiotician and interstitial. In other words, he is obsessed with two questions: "Where have you been?" and "Where are you going?"

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4.0 out of 5 stars Informative yet interesting read., July 7, 2000

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Eric Larson (Conover, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 11 Genetic Gateways to Spiritual Awakening (Paperback)

Eleven Gateways To Quantum Spirituality is Leonard Sweet's attempt to connect the United Methodist church with its past that strongly helped spark and shape the two major revivals movements in American history. With this book Sweet is hoping to capture some of that momentum that it has lost over the years by looking to the past. Leonard picks out 11 characteristics or genes that he believes the Church and more specifically the United Methodist Church needs to incorporate if it is to survive and be the kind of church that God called it to be. He incorporates such concepts as using good timing (the timing gene), taking advantage of new technology (the wired gene), and having good faithful music (the music gene). This book is not that much different and contains some same content and ideas as his other books AquaChurch and A Cup of Coffee at the Sweet Soul Cafe which are both better books. Although if you want to brush up on your Methodist history this is the book for you. Although I am strongly Lutheran I enjoyed the book anyway.