Bøger af David P. Gushee

A Group Study Guide to David Gushee's Bestselling After EvangelicalismMillions are getting lost in the evangelical maze: inerrancy, indifference to the environment, deterministic Calvinism, purity culture, racism, LGBTQ discrimination, male dominance, and Christian nationalism. As one of America's leading public scholars on these issues in religion today, David Gushee offers a clear assessment and his book After Evangelicalism shines a light on the path forward.The After Evangelicalism Group Study Guide encourages people to read and reflect together on Christianity after evangelicalism.This study guide, written by someone who taught the material himself, can be used by individuals or groups to accompany the reading of the book. The guide is structured in five sections, each dealing with two of the book's chapters. Each week of the guide offers three sections: Getting Ready, giving a summary of the big ideas from the book as well as questions for personal reflection; Group Discussion, offering five or six discussion questions; and Paths Forward, providing supplementary material for going further or deeper. There are also one or two spiritual practices people can try, as well as an optional simple Bible study." . . . a succinct yet deeply informed guide for post-evangelicals seeking to pursue Christ-honoring lives."Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne

David Gushee analyzes what went wrong with U.S. white evangelicalism in areas such as evangelical identity, biblical interpretation, church life, sexuality, politics, and race, and offers a new way forward for disillusioned post-evangelicals.

In this provocative tell-all, David Gushee opens the door to the frictions and schisms of evangelicalism, tells his own story of leaving, and shows that you, too, can find a Christianity that is worth following.

David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. A foremost expert in the field of Christian ethics, he is the author or editor of twenty books, including Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust, Kingdom Ethics, The Sacredness of Human Life...

Argues that there is in US politics an "evangelical centre" of voters who do not identify with the politics and religion of either the right or left. Although evangelical Christians are portrayed by the media as conservatives, Gushee claims that the movement includes nearly even numbers of voters on the right, in the centre, and on the left.