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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Eerdmans (October 16, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0802868401
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802868404
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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2.0 out of 5 starsNot for the ordinary person in the pew or the ordinary parson in the pulpi
By Dr. John Bunyan on November 22, 2013
Format: Hardcover
This book demonstrates much scholarship and its basic and important thesis is clear in the publisher's note. However, as a not unintelligent reader, I found it heavy going and despite its enticing title, not a book for the ordinary "person in the pew" or the ordinary "parson in the pulpit". I'd like something much simpler that demonstrated how in practice liberal Christianity might be "re-invented" in the way and for the purposes the author would want. Instead, the book ends with "how can liberal Christianity find a whole new style of sacramental practice that reverses the drift of the Protestant centuries? Where can it find new depth and authenticity and the ability to speak to those innoculated against 'religion'? (Bonhoeffer's questions abide.) How can it acquire nonreactionary ritual intensity, an immersion in the Christ-cult that engages rather than alienated the secular world? How can it learn a language that combines secular honesty and holy trust". But the last two words are "God knows" ! I don't know if God knows, but I hope others have some practical suggestions. This book does not and in the end, this is not one I myself could recommend to those who are not learned scholars such as those who commend it (Martyn Percy, George Pattison, David Martin, and Linda Woodhead).
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5.0 out of 5 starsbrilliant. I've had college coursework on the history of ...
By Kathy Davila on June 29, 2015
Format: Hardcover
Insightful, riveting, brilliant. I've had college coursework on the history of the church, and I've read many other books on church history and the current state of the church; but this book has been the most influential resource in helping me to understand the historical challenges and the pivotal thinkers. Thanks to this book, I now grasp more fully our religious and political situation today, and I feel more hope and direction for moving forward in productive ways. One of my favorite parts of this summer is having the time for daily discussions about these ideas with my teen daughters.
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5.0 out of 5 stars“Reinventing Liberal Christianity” examines the foundation of liberality in the ...
By M. Moody on January 4, 2015
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“Reinventing Liberal Christianity” examines the foundation of liberality in the post Reformation debates concerning personal freedom of Christian worship. As its cover suggests, what its content offers are building blocks for a reinvention, not, in spite of the hope of many readers of such works, an “answer” at the book’s conclusion. Yet, at least for me, a teacher of the Bible and its historic context, it offers more substance than the few other books I have read on the longing for Traditional Christian Church renewal.
The common history of Western Civilization’s growth toward the “rights of the common man” tends to focus upon the Hobbes, Locke, Mill sequence. The part the struggle for religious toleration played in this collective body of thought, is not ignored, but tends to be treated as a separate subject. Hobson asserts, and lucidly presents, the central role of this societal battle in the thought of a succession of religious writers. After a quick review of early Christian thought and the Reformation fathers, Hobson begins his serious review of the historic sequence of thought with Puritan America and the English Revolution. He lovingly focuses upon the contentious seventeenth century religious dialogue, which he convincingly finds at the root of the emergence of the liberal perspective so entrenched within our contemporary society. Deism, Romanticism, Nineteenth Century German theology, the Twentieth Century collapse (his term) and Post-Liberal thought follow in sequence.
Answering, after a fashion, the reviews that proceed mine, yes the book requires intellectual background, and yes the discussion is more institutional than spiritual. For me, an intellectual dilettante not a learned scholar, the review of and opinionated comment upon philosophies of church was delightful.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsWhere Is Jesus in Liberal Christianity?
By Rev JSM on January 27, 2014
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In this 327 page book, only on 18 pages (per its "Index") is the name Jesus mentioned. And, on those 18 pages, Jesus appears in name only -- as an object of discussion, rather than as a source and/or inspiration for discussion.

This book is all about the institutional views and philosophies of "the Church". It is all thought and no heart. And, it contains essentially nothing of Jesus' teachings or life which might inform the principles of "Liberal Christianity".

As a minister ordained in a progressive, "liberal", and thoughtful denomination, it seems to me that any usefulness of this book is limited to the description of the author's rather opinionated interpretation of church history. Beyond that, it is virtually irrelevant to practical application -- other than as an illustration of what's wrong with Christianity today and why it is struggling for relevance in contemporary society.
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