The future of faith

258 Pages·2016·3.87 MB·English

by  Cox Harvey.

PRAISE FOR The Future of Faith
"Cox is the most important liberal theologian of the last half cen
tury because he could see around corners.... The Future of Faith
is, quite simply, a beautiful book and a Cox classic."
—E. J. Dionne Jr., author oiSouled Out
uThe Future of Faith is a tour de force. As passionate and challeng
ing as his classic, The Secular City, Cox's new book invites the
faithful, the skeptical, and the fearful into a spirit-filled vision of
Christianity that can renew a hurting world."
—Diana Butler Bass, author of A People's History
of Christianity
uThe Future of Faith is insightful, provocative, and inspiring—I even
found myself uttering a hearty evangelical Amen' at many points!"
—Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological
Seminary and author of Calvinism in the
Las Vegas Airport
"Cox has been a voice of both reason and faith in our cynical times.
Now, he offers a fresh vision for the resurrection of a new global
Christianity that will restore our faith both in ourselves and the
divine."
—Deepak Chopra, author of Jesus: A Story
of Enlightenment ^
"Cox brings the eye of an historian and the heart of a theologian to
explain where we've come from where we're going. The Future of
Faith is an essential guide to that future."
—Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners and author of
The Great Awakening
"This important book has not only helped me understand the past,
present, and future of this amazing phenomenon called Christian
ity .. . it has also motivated me to keep working to help make
actual the possible future Cox envisions."
—Brian McLaren, author of A New Kind of Christian
"For the last four decades, Cox has been the leading trend spotter
in American religion."
—Stephen Prothero, author of God Is Not One
FUTURE
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THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MY GRANDCHILDREN:
Maximilian Davis Marshall
b. December 8,1993
Sara Cox Kelemen
b. January 21, 1994
Josephine Maria Marshall
b. June 23,1996
Lucille Boushall Kelemen
b. December 2,1997
Miles Bennett Marshall
b. July 9,1999
Logan Cazier Cox
b. October 6, 2002
Ethan Cutler Cox
b. September 11, 2004
Miranda Jasmine Cox
b. May 11^2007
THEY EMBODY MY FAITH IN THE FUTURE

History may be servitude,
History may be freedom. See, now they vanish,
The faces and places, with the self which,
as it could, loved them,
To become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.
T.S. Eliot,
Little Gidding