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Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches For Conservative Christianity



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EXODUS

"WE HAVE FIGURED OUT YOUR PROBLEM. YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO BELIEVES IN GOD."

As it happens, these words were spoken to a seminary student I know, while he was eating lunch in the seminary cafeteria. They were spoken by another seminary student, who was reflecting the view of fellow students and faculty.

Something has gone decidedly amiss when a person who believes in God is the odd man out. That is exactly what is happening throughout the Protestant mainline, and that is what this book is about: Americans are vacating progressive pews and flocking to churches that offer more tradi- tional versions of Christianity.

LIBERAL CHURCHES HAVE GONE TOO FAR!

In 1984, to give one well-known example, the proprietors of New York's (Episcopalian] Cathedral of St. John the Divine unveiled a crucifix featuring "Christa"-a female remake of Jesus that would likely have made Herod's sap rise.

The Episcopalians are hardly the only participants in this religious freak show. The Presbyterians, who have been fighting their own sex wars for decades (as have the Methodists and others), dre ated large columns of refugees by embracing nontraditional ideas, including one insisting that the denomination transfer thousands of dollars from its collection plates into the pockets of Angela Davis-a vibrant apostle, to be sure, though of Karl Marx, not Jesus of Nazareth

The United Church of Christ's general synod endorsed homosexual ordinations in 1983, which was not so great an offense, to some at least, as were references to God as both Mother and Father (suggesting a supernatural sexual identity crisis) and the likening of the Almighty to Bakerwoman." Christian aesthetics have fallen far since the King James Version and Michelangelo


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225 Shi e
Publisher Penguin Group : United States of America.,
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196p. :ill. ; 23x15.5 cm
Language
Indonesia
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9781595230072
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225
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1st ed.
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