What Does a Progressive Christian Believe?

Informationen zum Autor Delwin Brown is Dean Emeritus of the Pacific School of Religion and formerly the Harvey H. Potthoff Professor of Christian Theology at Iliff School of Theology. The author of many books and articles, he is a lay member of the United Methodist Church and resides in Oakland, California. Klappentext A systematic understanding of progressive Christianity and the reasons for them. Progressive Christianity is a family of perspectives that vigorously rejects the religious right as a gross distortion of the Christian faith. Just as important, progressive Christianity criticizes and moves beyond the (other) conservatisms and the liberalisms of the immediate Christian past. This book presents one progressive Christian standpoint introductory in character for ordinary people, not specialist. Zusammenfassung This book came into being about two o'clock in the morning on the day after the 2004 US presidential election. It arose out of the stunned realization that the historic tradition of progressive Christian thought and action had virtually disappeared from American public discourse.

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Delwin Brown is Dean Emeritus of the Pacific School of Religion and formerly the Harvey H. Potthoff Professor of Christian Theology at Iliff School of Theology. The author of many books and articles, he is a lay member of the United Methodist Church and resides in Oakland, California.

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A systematic understanding of progressive Christianity and the reasons for them.
Progressive Christianity is a family of perspectives that vigorously rejects the religious right as a gross distortion of the Christian faith. Just as important, progressive Christianity criticizes and moves beyond the (other) conservatisms and the liberalisms of the immediate Christian past. This book presents one progressive Christian standpoint introductory in character for ordinary people, not specialist.

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This book came into being about two o'clock in the morning on the day after the 2004 US presidential election. It arose out of the stunned realization that the historic tradition of progressive Christian thought and action had virtually disappeared from American public discourse.