by Brian D. McLaren
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By celebrating strengths of many traditions in the church (and beyond), this book will seek to communicate a “generous orthodoxy.”
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1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
 I must have overlooked the part that was orthodox, 2008-02-26
I was highly disappointed by the title of this book. McLarin says a lot without saying anything. If you want to get on the fast track to universalism, grab a hold of this book. While none of the "conversational" emergents will outright deny core Christian doctrines (e.g.the substitutionary atonement of Christ), they don't outright say anything - if you follow their path of logic you will arrive at a place that is anything but Orthodox.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Perfect Timing!!, 2007-11-13
I found this book purely by accident(maybe) while searching for another. The title caught my eye first and upon closer inspection I decided this would be an interesting "read" given the place I was at in my own spiritual search. I found this book very educational and it is written as if I were listening to him personally. Brian did a great job of giving me insight into different religious beliefs(dogmas) and practices. This in turn helped me immensely by validating many of my own feelings on the practical ways of "living" my beliefs. He spent a little too much time apologizing at the beginning of the book but after finishing it I could understand the reasoning.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
 Ever argue with someone about relgion or spirituality?, 2007-11-09
Can a Catholic find meaning in Baptist traditions?
Can one find meaning in Protestant or Calvinistic interpretations?
Can Protestants learn something about God by the way Catholics do things?
If you have every thought these thoughts, you probably need to look at this book. Even if you haven't, it's worth the read. I don't know if I agree with everything he says in this book, but it has also been my experience that one gains understanding about one's own beliefs when he looks at the beliefs of others and converses with believers of different denominations or even different religions. Even if you disagree with someone, it can also make you look at things a bit differently. Sometimes it can cement your belief in something.
McLaren's journey into orthodoxy of many Christian denominations is such a conversation. Do any of these Christian denominations have the sole claim to absolute truth? Could we gain some insight into our relationship with God by looking how other look at God?
Read the book and see what you think.....
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Share the ambivalence, 2007-09-28
The one thing I most appreciate about this book is how clearly MacLaren shares his own ambivalence and his own internal struggle over theological issues. His candor is something not always seen in members of the clergy, much less in people who are publishing about their faith.
If you don't like long, convoluted sentence structure (see Faulkner here), you'll likely have trouble taking much away from this book. I think it's unfortunate that his writing style does manage to make his ideas so much less accessible for some people.
9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
 Ungenerous Hypocrisy , 2007-08-30
McLaren takes aim mostly at the Evangelical culture and Lord knows we need to get smacked down, but what he fails to understand is how dogmatic, prideful and just plain wrong his spiritually enlightened comrades are on many counts. Case in point is his fawning over environmentalists while he takes hypocritical fundamentalists to task for using scare tactics. I've worked on an environmental issue for four years and daily witness unbelievable slander and misinformation being spread by the leading green groups who use junk science and emotion to lie. This is precisely what McLaren accuses overzealous evangelicals of doing and of course there's some truth to that charge. But the fact that he self righteously hails his environmentalist friends as noble and heroic exposes the weakness of this book, and McLaren's lack of credibility in general.
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