Why Christian? For Those on the Edge of Faith

by Douglas John Hall

Overview

In these dialogues with doubt, Hall enters into an earnest search with a young inquirera composite ofundergraduates, graduates, clergy, working people, his own childrenwho is on the edges of Christianfaith. Half familiar with superficial aspects of Christianity, hopeful of there being greater depth than has beenfound so far, she or he is curious, insistent, looking for something to believe in but not ready to leap without good reason. Such a person is asking, "Why be Christian?"In a passionate and personal way, Hall probes fundamental religious questions and wrestles with thecogency of basic Christian convictions about Jesus and God, about religious belief and the human predicament, about inauthentic forms of Christianity, about what is missing in human life today. QuotingUnamuno's dictum that "Faith that does not doubt is dead faith," Hall's accessible and straightforward book helps readers to reclaim a Christianity of personal, intellectual, and moral integrity. This book maywell prove a modern religious classic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800631307
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	02/28/1998
Series:	Religious Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Douglas John Hall is emeritus professor of theology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Among the most widely read theologians in North America, Hall has written many popular and acclaimed works, including Lighten Our Darkness (1976), God and Human Suffering (1987), and Why Christian? (1998), as well as a full-scale trilogy in systematic theology: Thinking the Faith (1991), Professing the Faith (1996), and Confessing the Faith (1998), all from Fortress Press.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Why Christian?

2. Why Jesus?

3. Saved from What? For What?

4. But How?

5. What's the Difference?

6. Why Church? And by the Way, What about "the Others"?

7. Is There Any Hope?

Afterword