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Liked It “This is a good book. Foster makes the case for embracing multiple Christian traditions and trying to live aspects of them all together. There are six streams: Contemplative, Holiness, Charismatic, Social Justice, Evangelical and Incarnational. For each one, Foster follows an established...” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “Eh... I like the premise but had a hard time getting into it - and shouldn't have. I did finish it, and came away with some basic new understandings, but nothing as formative as I would have liked considering the topic.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“This is a good book. Foster makes the case for embracing multiple Christian traditions and trying to live aspects of them all together. There are six streams: Contemplative, Holiness, Charismatic, Social Justice, Evangelical and Incarnational. For each one, Foster follows an established pattern: 1) definition 2) a historical paradigm (he pulls a biography from church history) 3) a biblical paradigm (he pulls a biographical example from the Bible) 4) a contemporary paradigm (he pulls a biographical example from the past 100 years or so) 5) Review of strengths 6) review of perils you could fall into in the tradition. He doesn't quite present a way to bring them all together, so application runs a little thin. But the book is thought-provoking anyway, and I will certainly be watching how to live these streams out in my life now that I have a centralized way of thinking about them.”
Nesredna Divad wrote this review Friday, June 5 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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Kate P wrote this review Thursday, May 8 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Richard Foster writes in his usual highly organized manner to describe people from a)the Bible, b)people from early church history and c)modern day people who exemplify the six streams of church tradition. I find it to be an encouraging and inspirational overview of Christianity.”
Cathy B wrote this review Friday, November 23 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“My favorite Christian non-fiction writer.”
Annette/MissDaisyAnne wrote this review Friday, August 17 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Eh... I like the premise but had a hard time getting into it - and shouldn't have. I did finish it, and came away with some basic new understandings, but nothing as formative as I would have liked considering the topic.”
Readerlove wrote this review Friday, July 6 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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