Unmasking Biblical Faiths

“Charles Hedrick’s Unmasking Biblical Faiths is a refreshingly sustained journey into the interior . . . He patiently presents what many would assume to be ‘God’s truth’ coming from the pages of scripture and then discloses that there are other ways of reading that very material. Adept in rigors of biblical criticism, Hedrick demonstrates that reason, science, and modern experience must share in the interpretive discussion. Otherwise, the bible reader lapses into a mindless acceptance of traditions that may well end in isolation from and violence towards the world.”


—Arthur J. Dewey, Xavier University





“The irony of writing with no axes to grind and nothing at stake, but on topics with many axes to grind and everything at stake, can be accomplished only by a retired academic of religion with the articulation, wisdom, and probity of Charlie Hedrick.”


—Glenna S. Jackson, Professor of Religious Studies, Otterbein University