Confronting Fundamentalism
Moderate Americans are fed up with hate-mongering, intolerant, hard-Right Christian fundamentalism and the radical politics they have created. Scholars in several different fields now agree that "Christian" has come to mean "hard-Right bigot." But that's a staggering cultural loss: a major spiritual tradition has been vandalized for narrow political purposes. Christians want their religion back. They want their God back. Secular humanists and members of other traditions are equally unhappy. They want their religious liberty back. They want their freedom of conscience back. They are tired of being demonized. They demand the respect due them as part of one nation with liberty and justice for all.
It's up to Christians to do some thing about this appalling state of affairs: Christian fundamentalism can only be stopped from within Christianity, just as Islamic fundamentalism can only be stopped from within Islam. And so the time is right for a major work—a nimble, accessible, cleanly focused work—reaching out to American majority of ordinary people who are moderate, reasonable, tolerant, neighborly, and committed to clear thinking and honest evidence. <i>Confronting Fundamentalism: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination</i> is that work.
After 9/11, she explains, Wallace knew that she had to speak up about dangerous fundamentalism in her own tradition. She had to speak up because she had the cultural-history expertise to trace this malignancy to its origins. She had the philosophical and theological chops to delineate the common ground shared by reasonable people <i>regardless of our religious allegiance</i>. She set out to map the common ground issues: gay marriage, political violence, science-denial, literal-minded absolutism, bullying judgmentalism and then misrepresentations of Jesus of Nazareth and God as Jesus understood him. Begin where you want, stop where you want: each volume is entirely self-contained. And each can be read in a couple of hours.
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Confronting Religious Absolutism
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
$22.00
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ISBN: 9781498228848
Pub Date: October 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy provide the conceptual foundations of theocracy, which is to say religiously-based totalitarianism. These absolutist doctrines emerge for the very first time...
Confronting a Controlling God
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
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ISBN: 9781498228930
Pub Date: August 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Christianity has lost control of its brand. That matters even for nonbelievers because Christian symbolism permeates Western culture. It shapes the source code for how we think about ourselves and what...
The Confrontational Wit of Jesus
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
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ISBN: 9781498228909
Pub Date: July 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Jesus did not die to save us from God. He died because the Romans did not tolerate charismatic teachers who attracted a lively following. Jesus attracted that following through his personal compassion,...
Confronting Religious Denial of Science
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
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ISBN: 9781498228749
Pub Date: July 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Confronting Religious Denial of Science: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination traces the cultural backstory of contemporary conflicts between biblical literalists who oppose evolution and "New...
Confronting Religious Judgmentalism
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
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ISBN: 9781498228879
Pub Date: May 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Come to church or go to hell. That's religious bullying. It's judgmentalism. And it's a theological distortion, a distortion insisting that shame and self-loathing are morally appropriate. In Christian...
Confronting Religious Violence
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
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ISBN: 9781498228817
Pub Date: March 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Confronting Religious Violence: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination tells the tale of Christian theocracy in the West. Who converted whom was never entirely clear: the empire did stop feeding...
Confronting Religious Denial of Gay Marriage
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ISBN: 9781498225403
Pub Date: October 2015
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Writing in part for secular humanists, non-Christians, and ex-Christians, Wallace locates the beginning of religious vilification of LBGTQ Americans: these attacks recycle earlier, equally reactionary...
Confronting Religious Absolutism
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
$22.00
£20.00
AU$30.00
ISBN: 9781498228848
Pub Date: October 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Confronting a Controlling God
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
$20.00
£18.00
AU$27.00
ISBN: 9781498228930
Pub Date: August 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
The Confrontational Wit of Jesus
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
$25.00
£22.00
AU$34.00
ISBN: 9781498228909
Pub Date: July 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Confronting Religious Denial of Science
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
$21.00
£19.00
AU$28.00
ISBN: 9781498228749
Pub Date: July 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Confronting Religious Judgmentalism
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
$23.00
£21.00
AU$31.00
ISBN: 9781498228879
Pub Date: May 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Confronting Religious Violence
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
$19.00
£17.00
AU$25.00
ISBN: 9781498228817
Pub Date: March 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Confronting Religious Denial of Gay Marriage
$18.00
£16.00
AU$24.00
ISBN: 9781498225403
Pub Date: October 2015
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books