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Undoing the Damage
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ISBN: 9780899570389
MSRP $14.99 256 Pages
6 x 9 inches
Trade Paperback
After twenty years focused overseas, an American missionary looks home. Dr. Munger applies his experience in culture, language, and the Bible to fellow Evangelicals. Their often-distorted picture of God saddens Him. The loving God who woos humanity is wrongly perceived on both sides of a growing cultural rift. We, in America, who claim to follow Him, do much harm to the cause of Christ. Though “God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son” (John 3:16), “his name is blasphemed among the Gentiles” because of us (Romans 2:24).
Rethinking God: Undoing the Damage transcends the cultural divide by exposing common distortions of the great, grieving lover. It unmasks Evangelical misrepresentations, but also challenges non-Christians to rethink their own positions. The book starts by establishing the nature and validity of faith. Then come key areas that most often damage God’s reputation: Church leadership, practice, and political involvement; distorted theology; the problem of evil; and the fate of people who never hear the gospel. Dr. Munger challenges Christians to reform, and gives honest seekers reason and courage to look again at the beauty of humanity’s source and only hope.
Sample Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1 Moving Beyond Atheism: My own journey (and that of others, too)
- Chapter 2 True Leadership: It points to the way and gets out of the way
- Chapter 3 Church is a Dream
- Chapter 4 Tolerance, Religion, and Politics
- Chapter 5 Overcooked Theology: Some teachings that stick in the throat
- Chapter 6 The Problem of Evil
- Chapter 7 They’ve Never Heard the Gospel? Stories from the rain forest
- Chapter 8 Jesus and a Lonely Woman
- Chapter 9 Hear the Music? Discretion advised! (and appendices)
- A Defense of Marx Dismantled (Some problems in the Communist Manifesto and its support)
- Intelligent Design (Weaknesses in the case against ID)
- Jesus, Judas, Da Vinci, and a Hole in the Ice (Flaws in some portrayals about Jesus)
- Can We Trust the New Testament Text? (Yes, with good reason)
- Who Killed Jesus? (Everybody)
About the Author:
Dr. Scott Munger is a former agnostic who came to faith in God. He has been trained in both science (BA, Biochemistry, Bethel College, St. Paul) and the humanities (MA, Linguistics, University of Texas; Ph.D., Linguistics, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands). Central to his field research were cultural, sociological, and linguistic studies of other peoples. He has lived and worked in a rough-and-tumble world, from the guerilla-tracked Philippine rain forest to the concrete jungle of the collapsing Soviet Union. He has served as a missionary, consultant, Bible translator, church leader, teacher, and administrator. In addition to being a long-time student of biblical Hebrew and Greek, he has taught (university, seminary, and church) in three languages and studied several others. He is an avowed Evangelical, a commissioned and ordained minister of the gospel (non-denominational), a retired member of Wycliffe Bible Translators, and former Vice President of International Bible Society. He has discussed religious issues on radio, CNN, and FOX News, and has worked with Christian leaders from the United States and around the world.
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