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DID NOT FINISH
This book is so controversial in the Christian church that I was curious about what it really said.
I'm sad to say - I still don't know. I can't tell what he's saying, as I found the writing unreadable. He writes in a kind of rhetorical, preachery way of repetition and rhyming and handy quotables and questions...but without any clear answers. (At least in the 4 chapters I read.)
My conclusion: It stirs people up because it questions the modern evangelical idea, not of a literal heaven or hell, but on the obsession with this being the POINT of Christiantiy (go to Heaven and skip out on Hell). As far as I can tell (and again, it's pretty opaque), he believes in the literal Heaven + Hell, but he argues that the Christian focus should be the here + now, bringing "God's Will" or "the Kingdon of Heaven" into this world, this lifetime.
(This focus on the environment, the poor, the in-need-of-love-now (instead of the afterlife) is what I understand to be the teachings of the Episcopal church, so this is not brand new information.)
Put it down halfway through because I just couldn't bear the writing, and had lost all hope of a clear statement.
I'm sad to say - I still don't know. I can't tell what he's saying, as I found the writing unreadable. He writes in a kind of rhetorical, preachery way of repetition and rhyming and handy quotables and questions...but without any clear answers. (At least in the 4 chapters I read.)
My conclusion: It stirs people up because it questions the modern evangelical idea, not of a literal heaven or hell, but on the obsession with this being the POINT of Christiantiy (go to Heaven and skip out on Hell). As far as I can tell (and again, it's pretty opaque), he believes in the literal Heaven + Hell, but he argues that the Christian focus should be the here + now, bringing "God's Will" or "the Kingdon of Heaven" into this world, this lifetime.
(This focus on the environment, the poor, the in-need-of-love-now (instead of the afterlife) is what I understand to be the teachings of the Episcopal church, so this is not brand new information.)
Put it down halfway through because I just couldn't bear the writing, and had lost all hope of a clear statement.