"Tout ce qui monte converge," wrote Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: "all that rises converges." The closer an ascent gets to the summit the more other ascents become visible. Phil Gulley, an author and Quaker pastor, has previously written, both singularly and in collaboration with James Mulholland, three books on the subject of Christian Universalism. With THE EVOLUTION OF FAITH, Friend Gulley has pushed his own envelope to urge a universalism sourced in but not limited to the protestant [sic] Christian tradition. As with his other books, THE EVOLUTION OF FAITH is written both deftly and gently, with a good deal of charm, warmth and wit, but not without a hard word when speaking of the toxins of unreasoning, intolerant religion.
THE EVOLUTION OF FAITH is structured much like a typical manual of Christian theology: Revelation, God, Jesus, the Living Spirit, Who Are We?, Suffering and Evil, Salvation, Prayer, The Church, The Afterlife, and so on. But the chapter titles conceal a truly radical, meta-Christian, approach to each of these areas of church teaching such that I found myself holding my breath, hoping that ghosts of the Inquisition weren't lurking in my Kindle. And indeed in 2007 an attempt to remove Gulley's credentials as a Quaker minister was initiated in his Yearly Meeting (synod). Gulley's troubles with guardians of the faith began years earlier, as evidenced by the charge leveled by the Rev. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, that in
If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person
(2003) Gulley and Mulholland "jettison the whole structure of Christian conviction." Ironically, seen in retrospect, IF GRACE IS TRUE is in no wise the challenge to Christian orthodoxy that THE EVOLUTION OF FAITH is!
Like Phil Gulley I am a Quaker by convincement, and like Friend Gulley I am a universalist though not of Christian persuasion. Yet, I think of myself as a member of Phil's larger flock and feel that his radical universalism will be of inestimable value to any person of questing faith, Christian or not. To that end I heartily give THE EVOLUTION OF FAITH all the stars in the firmament of courageous religious thought.
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