Here I announce a new book discussion for those who are interested. The book is The Myth of Certainty: The Reflective Christian and the Risk of Commitment by my former colleague and forever friend Daniel Taylor.
This book spoke to me in a powerful way when I was struggling with doubts and questions about what I had been taught and was expected to believe, especially by pastors and evangelists and even by some college and seminary teacher. I recognized myself in the book as one of Taylor’s “reflective Christians.” And yet, now, as I read it again years later I have some questions about Dan’s statements about reflective Christianity.
The book is still in print and available from InterVarsity Press via Amazon or abebooks (used books). It’s inexpensive. It’s not difficult to read. It’s sermonic. It’s insightful. It’s challenging. It’s comforting to those of us who struggle with Christianity mired in urban legends (“evangelegends”), smug and dogmatic fundamentalism (even “conservative evangelicalism”), and with the same mentality and posture among liberals and secularists.
Dan is an excellent writer. Winsome. Appealing, A master of words and sentences. A man of wisdom.
I plan to begin commentary on the Introduction and Chapter 1: The Nature of Reflection in two weeks—December 31. The book is available for Kindle, so order it for that if you want to be sure to receive it before December 31.
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