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Questions to All Your Answers : The Journey From Folk Religion to Examined Faith by Roger E. Olson, Dan Kimball is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

What is Questions to All Your Answers : The Journey From Folk Religion to Examined Faith about?

"Many Christians' faith exists as a loose collection of unexamined clichés and slogans borrowed from songs, devotional books, sermon illustrations, and even the internet. Too often this belief system (if it can be called a "system") lacks coherence and intelligibility; it can hardly be expressed, let alone defended, to others. The problem with folk religion is that it too easily withers under the onslaughts of secularism or seemingly reasonable answers provided by cults and new religions. Christianity has a long tradition of intellectual examination of other faiths and its own beliefs. Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living; great Christian minds of all the ages have believed the unexamined faith is not worth believing. Reflective Christianity is Christian faith that has subjected itself to the rigorous questioning of Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience. It is mature Christian faith that goes on believing even as it questions what it believes. The goal of this book is not to destroy anyone's faith but to build it up by placing it on a firmer foundation of critical examination. Ten popular Christian clichés are subjected to critical inquiry and interroga

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It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.

Common subject areas: religion, theology.

Author
Roger E. Olson, Dan Kimball
Publisher
Zondervan Bibles
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780310541318
Category
religious
Subjects
Religion, Christian, Psychology
Rating
3.75 / 5 (53 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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