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Index
Advance Praise for After Evangelicalism
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Brian D. McLaren
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Evangelicalism’s Conscientious Objectors
Are/Were You an Evangelical? Take Our Simple Test and Find Out!
My Journey out of Evangelicalism
Today’s Exvangelicals and Their Predecessors
Outline of the Book: Authority, Theology, Ethics
Finding Our Way out of the Maze
Part I. Authorities: Listening and Learning
1. Evangelicalism: Cutting Loose from an Invented Community
Earlier Evangelicals
The New Evangelicals
American Evangelicalism on the March
An Unwieldy Evangelicalism Defaults to Conservative Politics
A Retrospective on Modern American Evangelicalism
Beyond Disillusionment to a New Path
Takeaways
2. Scripture: From Inerrancy to the Church’s Book
Evangelical Biblicism
Inerrancy and Infallibility
Composition, Contextuality, and Diversity
The Inevitability of Interpretation
The Church’s Book
The Hebrew Bible—and the Jewish People’s Way of Reading It
Epistemology: There Are Many Other Ways of Knowing
Another Way: Church, Lectionary, and Liturgy
Takeaways
3. Resources: Hearing God’s Voice beyond Scripture
Beyond Sola Scriptura
Internal Ecclesial Resources: Tradition, Churches, and Their Leaders
Lived Human Capacities: Reason, Experience, Intuition, Relationships, and Community
External Intellectual Resources: The Arts and Sciences
A Further Word about Science, with an Excursion into Climate Change
Toward Christian Humanism via Erasmus
Takeaways
Part II. Theology: Believing and Belonging
4. God: In Dialogue with the Story of Israel
Six Key Strands of Theology
Burning Children Is Where I Begin
Grappling with the Narrative of the Hebrew Bible
The Theological Crisis after 587 BCE
Toward a Post-Holocaust Voluntary Covenant
A God Who Suffers at Human Hands
Takeaways
5. Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet, Lynched God-Man, Risen Lord
Jesus according to . . .
Jesus according to American White Evangelicalism
Jesus according to Jesus
Jesus according to Gushee via Matthew
What Do We Make of Jesus’ Message Today?
What Do We Make of Jesus’ Death Today?
What Is Our Gospel?
Takeaways
6. Church: Finding Christ’s People
Leaving Church
Toward a Biblical Theology of Church
A Second Look at the Evangelical Church Crisis
My Churches: Looking inside the Doors
Where Shall Post-evangelicals Find Christ’s People?
Takeaways
Part III. Ethics: Being and Behaving
7. Sex: From Sexual Purity to Covenant Realism
The Bible on Sexuality
Purity, Gender, and Sex
At the Intersection of Nature and Culture
Evangelicals and LGBTQ People: What Went Wrong
Toward Post-evangelical Sexual Ethics
Takeaways
8. Politics: Starting Over after White Evangelicalism’s Embrace of Trumpism
The Difficulty and Complexity of Christian Political Ethics
The Political Trajectory of White US Evangelicals
The Birth of the 1970s Christian Right
Current Developments
Seven Marks of Healthy Christian Politics
Takeaways
9. Race: Unveiling and Ending White-Supremacist Christianity
Western Christian Racism: A Heresy Visible in Fifteenth-Century Europe
White American Christians Embrace the Sin of Black Slavery
Wickedness Flourishing in White Racist Christianity
Black Observers Have Always Named the Heresy
We Missed Every Opportunity to Repent
Rethinking Everything by Listening to People of Color
Takeaways
Epilogue
Appendix: Toward a Post-evangelical Typology: A Who’s Who of the Post-Evangelicals
Notes
Index of Bible References
Index of Names and Subjects
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