God Is Not... Religious, Nice, One of Us, an American, a Capitalist

Name: God Is Not... Religious, Nice, One of Us, an American, a Capitalist
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ISBN: 9781587431012

ISBN-10: 1587431017

ISBN-13: 9781587431012

Edition: 2004

Authors: D. Brent Laytham

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God Is Not . . . takes on today's prevailing misconceptions about who God is by boldly stating who God is not. Rodney Clapp critiques pop culture's anthem to a slobby, ineffective "God like us," while D. Stephen Long, in "God Is Not Nice," questions our therapy-fed longing for a useful, nonthreatening deity. If God is not an American or a capitalist or "religious," as contributors Michael Baxter, Mike Budde, and William T. Cavanaugh go on to argue, then who is God? Laytham concludes with a stirring essay on who God is, calling the church to visibly demonstrate where its primary allegiance lies.Audacious without being rude, God Is Not . . . is a lively, necessary, and intelligently reverent…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Brazos Press
Publication date: 7/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



God Is Not "a Stranger on the Bus": Discerning the Divine in Popular Culture




God Is Not Nice




God Is Not American: Or, Why Christians Should Not Pledge Allegiance to "One Nation Under God"




God Is Not a Capitalist




God Is Not Religious




God Is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic



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