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Radical Grace: How Belief in a Benevolent God Benefits Our Health (Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality)

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Ellen's book casts God in a much more favorable light that the evangelical fundamentalist's perception and removes the warts placed on God by narrow viewed sects and denominations. A pleasure to read as it is informative and uplifting. A healer's perspective of religion, psychology and philosophy gives good insight into many aspects of human nature.


Radical Grace: How Belief in a Benevolent God Benefits Our Health (Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality)

This is an absolutely magnificent book which brings together a lot of the authors previous arguments and conclusions about the Grace of God and its potential impact on human health. Dr Ellens defines Grace as the unconditional, radical, and universal acceptance of God for flawed humanity. Incorporating this concept in ones psychospiritual development is deemed the only hope for the healing of individuals. Ellens holds advanced degrees in both Psychology and Theology, and tackles both these areas in his book.I Cannot rate this book highly enough.

Some zealot recommended that I, a heathen, read this book. Frankly,I love stuff like this: Mixing hard science and faith into a some mashed-up psuedo-scientific theory. Insights like this used to be followed by "and that's why we burned him". But zealots are smarter now, all that Fire-And-Brimstone talk was a downer. This guy sells the sweet smelling up-side of dogma and mixes it with some head-shrinking double-talk.
Very profound indeed.

Faith is faith and science is science. Mixing the two is a bad idea. You can't scientifically prove with any certainty that God, Yeweh, Horus, or CThulu exists. This type of thinking is a slippery slope towards fanaticism.