
Finding Love
An Appreciative Inquiry Into Christian Talk about Sin and Salvation
Andrew Leslie Callander(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 17. February 2021
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-7252-9324-3 (ISBN)
Description
What if the majority Christian view concerning the gospel is not only wrong, but responsible for the rejection of Christian faith by so many today? If your idea of the gospel is that God's fundamental disposition toward you is angry judgment, but Jesus came to die on the cross to change God's mind about you, then Andrew Callander wants you to know the truth. God's fundamental disposition toward you, and all humanity, is eternal lovingkindness, and the reason Jesus came was to change our minds about God.
In company with biblical scholars like David Bentley Hart, contemplative activists like Richard Rohr, and progressive thinkers like Brian McLaren, Callander laments how centuries of Christian energy have been wasted determining and policing religious boundary lines. He wants the reader to be assured that in Jesus Christ, God has destroyed all barriers that stand in the way of our relationship with God. Callander's key theme is that humanity is already enfolded within God's eternal love and that our great task is not to find God's love, but awaken to the reality that the God of love has already found us--and then apply this to our relationships with others and with creation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7252-9324-3 (9781725293243)
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Andrew Leslie Callander is the minister of St James's Presbyterian Church, New Plymouth, New Zealand. Before entering Christian ministry, he taught economics. He is the author of Basic Economics (1992) and several editions of Understanding the Economic Environment (1998, 2004, and 2011). His doctoral thesis is titled Exploring a Christian Conception of Economic Life from within Karl Barth's Doctrine of Creation (2012).