The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity
 

The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity

by Brian D. McLaren

For all those seeking more authentic ways to hold and practice Christian faith, Brian McLaren has been an inspiring, compassionate—and provocative—voice. Starting with the award-winning A New Kind of Christian, McLaren offered a lively, wide-ranging fictional conversation between Pastor Dan Poole and his friend Neil Oliver as they reflected about faith, doubt, reason, mission,... (read more)

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Clara Jane
  • Rated 4 stars

This one had perhaps the greatest impact on me of all his books in the trilogy. It caused me to re-evaluate the common perception Christians have of hell and find the origins of this way of thinking.

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Brian Brown
  • Rated 1 stars

Like the entirety of the trilogy- the fiction has a way of sucking one in- oblivious to the theology- even while the prose is lacking. You find yourself angrily protesting with Neo the most painful reductions of Christian dogma unable to extract yourself from the narrative itself.
The history is bad- unbelievably one-sided, and based on piss-poor scholarship. The caricature of the evangelical world may be painfully spot-on in its look at the pop-evangelical world; but it misses wide in...

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  • Rated 4.0625 stars
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  • Rated 3 stars
 

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