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After Evangelicalism
After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity | David P. Gushee
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A building crescendo of developments, culminating in evangelical support for the Trump presidency, has led many evangelicals to question the faith they inherited. If being Christian means rejecting LGBTQ persons and supporting systemic racism, perhaps their Christian journey is over. David Gushee offers a new way forward for disillusioned post-evangelicals by first analyzing what went wrong with U.S. white evangelicalism in areas such as evangelical identity, biblical interpretation, church life, sexuality, politics, and race. Gushee then proposes new ways of Christian believing, belonging, and behaving, helping post-evangelicals from where they are to a living relationship with Christ and an intellectually cogent and morally robust post-evangelical faith. After Evangelicalism shows that it is possible to follow Jesus out of evangelical Christianity, and more than that, it's necessary.
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HeatherBookNerd
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This was a bit scholarly and dry compared to some of Gushee‘s other books, but worth reading. I appreciate his well reasoned, Christ-centered approach as he charts a possible path for those of us who are in various stages of reconstructing our spiritual lives after leaving the evangelical world.

CoffeeAndABook Hi, I haven‘t read this book yet but it sounds interesting. I‘ve found a wonderful, liberating approach to Christianity in the books by Philip Yancey and some early books by Rob Bell. Also I‘ve been meaning to read Rachel Held Evan‘s work. Possibly this is all old news to you 😂 but if not you might look into those authors. 😉💫 3y
CoffeeAndABook @HeatherBookNerd thank you for the recommendation!! 3y
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flybluejay
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Perfect day to wrap this one up.

I can only always ever hope that books like these are not too little, too late.