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Reimagining Christianity: Reconnect Your Spirit without Disconnecting Your Mind
"Alan Jones’s journey of faith will be of real help to those who are teetering on the razor’s edge between faith and doubt, hope and despair. It will challenge many to give Christianity a second look and recover the living heart of the tradition."
–– Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions and Why Religion Matters
"Here is a book for all who suspect that God is greater than religion, who regard imagination as a spiritual path, and who could use a wise companion on the way."
–– The Rev. Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor, Episcopal priest, author, teacher, and lecturer
In this provocative new book, the internationally renowned Dean of the Episcopal Grace Cathedral in San Francisco delivers a resonant and comforting message to anyone looking for spiritual solace in today’s troubled world.
Some intelligent people have been turned off by the idea of spirituality. A religion based on love and forgiveness, Christianity now seems, for some, unforgiving. Some who call themselves Christians seem divisive and rigid, saying that their way is the only way. In Reimagining Christianity, Alan Jones passionately argues that there is hope for Christianity, Christians, and spirituality–and for all of us on Earth.
Dr. Jones inspires you to think, to question, to dig deeper into the truths of existence as a way of deepening your spirituality rather than accepting rigid dogma. Drawing on his vast knowledge of history, religion, and the heart, Jones encourages you to open doors to those of all faiths and even to those who profess no faith at all. As you do so, you can better understand the powerful promise of Christianity.
In Reimagining Christianity, Alan Jones shows us how to get past tribalism while heeding the call to unity; how to appreciate the poetry, metaphor, and mystery of religion while avoiding strict literalism; how to fill the wound inside of us that religion may once have filled; how even non-Christians can be more Christlike than some who profess to be Christians; and how we can unlearn hate while learning to love and forgive.
Rich with moving anecdotes from the author’s life and work as well as eloquent excerpts from other literary and spiritual works, Reimagining Christianity will strike a chord with anyone who feels the need to reconnect the spirit without disconnecting the mind.
Hardcover, 288 pages
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