There Is No God and Mary Is His Mother: Rediscovering Religionless Christianity

There Is No God and Mary Is His Mother: Rediscovering Religionless Christianity

by Thomas Cathcart
There Is No God and Mary Is His Mother: Rediscovering Religionless Christianity

There Is No God and Mary Is His Mother: Rediscovering Religionless Christianity

by Thomas Cathcart

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Overview

Is the Western world really post-Christian, or does Christianity simply need a reinterpretation? What did Dietrich Bonhoeffer mean by "religionless Christianity"? Is it passé? Or was it perhaps ahead of its time? In an era of dramatically increased religious pluralism and the emergence of large numbers of people identifying as "spiritual but not religious," so-called "religionless Christianity" can speak to those who find both biblicism and "belief-based" religion irrelevant. In this personal, witty, and timely book, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Cathcart takes readers on a journey into belief and unbelief and leads them through to the other side. Drawing from deep philosophical and theological wells, There Is No God and Mary Is His Mother demonstrates the meaningfulness of being a Christian in a secular age. Cathcart shows that, even absent traditional theological formulas and doctrines, Christianity can be a credible, meaningful, and practical means of negotiating worldly existence and experience. For Christians, There Is No God and Mary Is His Mother offers encouragement. For ex-Christians, it presents a different way of being a Christian than the one they've rejected. For atheists, it shows how Christianity can be an ally in affirming the here and now. Religionless Christianity is possible and desirable wherever and whenever it awakens personal and social transformation.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781506474168
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication date: 09/07/2021
Pages: 140
Sales rank: 385,153
Product dimensions: 4.90(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Thomas Cathcart is the author or coauthor of six books, including the New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar (2007), Heidegger and a Hippo Walk through Those Pearly Gates (2009), and The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Guy Off the Bridge? (2013). He has been a college instructor, a hospital administrator, a social worker with inner-city gangs, a hospice director for patients with HIV/AIDS, and a lay leader in many congregations. He lives in upstate New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

1 So What? 1

2 How Did We Screw This Up So Badly? 9

3 What's Wrong with You? (If Anything) 19

4 Some Terminology and Some Loose Ends 33

5 God Is Good? 59

6 Envisioning a Kingdom of God 67

7 How Holy Is the Holy Spirit? 91

8 The Gift 107

9 Christ in Me? 115

10 Bringing It All Back Home 125

Further Reading 133

Notes 137

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