Word Guild Awards Shortlist — Apologetics/Evangelism
Word Guild Award — Best Book Cover Award
Christianity Today's Book of the Year Award of Merit – The Beautiful Orthodoxy
What if certainty isn't the goal?
In a world filled with ambiguity, many of us long for a belief system that provides straightforward answers to complex questions and clarity in the face of confusion. We want faith to act like an orderly set of truth-claims designed to solve the problems and pain that life throws at us.
With signature candor and depth, Jen Pollock Michel helps readers imagine a Christian faith open to mystery. While there are certainties in Christian faith, at the heart of the Christian story is also paradox. Jesus invites us to abandon the polarities of either and or in order to embrace the difficult, wondrous dissonance of and.
The incarnation—the paradox of God made human—teaches us to look for God in the and of body and spirit, heaven and earth. In the kingdom, God often hides in plain sight and announces his triumph on the back of a donkey. In the paradox of grace, we receive life eternal by actively participating in death. And lament, with its clear-eyed appraisal of suffering alongside its commitment to finding audience with God, is a paradoxical practice of faith. Each of these themes give us certainty about God while also leading us into greater curiosity about his nature and activity in the world.
As Michel writes, ‘As soon as we think we have God figured out, we will have ceased to worship him as he is.’ With personal stories and reflection on Scripture, literature, and culture, Michel takes us deeper into mystery and into worship of the One who is Mystery and Love.
Table des matières
Foreword by Russ Ramsey
Introduction: A Little Bit of Wondering
Part One: Incarnation
1. The Great I AND
2. Annunciations
3. One Wild and Precious Life
4. A Word About Glory
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Part Two: Kingdom
5. Hiding in Plain Sight
6. Blessed Are
7. Birds and Barns
8. The High Treason of Hallelujah
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Part Three: Grace
9. Free Lunch
10. The Gracious Course of Rightness
11. Birds and Broken Wings
12. The Efforts of Grace
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Part Four: Lament
13. Fluency in the Loud Groan
14. Complaints Department
15. Unfinished Business
16. A Suffering God
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
A propos de l’auteur
Russ Ramsey is a pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife and four children. His writing has appeared at The Rabbit Room, The Gospel Coalition, The Art House, and He Reads Truth. He is the author of Behold the Lamb of God and was awarded the 2016 Christian Book Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association for his book Behold the King of Glory.
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