Help for Questioning Christians

What Contemporary Scholars Are Saying About “Settled” Moral Issues

John T. Whitehead

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9798385231836
  9798385231843
• eBook ISBN:
  9798385231850
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

Help for Questioning Christians by John Whitehead is a guide for Christians to recent scholarly writing on key moral issues such as the Prosperity Gospel, abortion, euthanasia, homosexual sexual activity, physician-assisted suicide, the death penalty, and Christian nationalism. While many official church documents assert that several of these issues are immoral and sinful, there are theologians and other scholars who offer positions that justify such actions, based on lack of biblical support or a different line of theological reasoning. This book explains these approaches and compares them to traditional answers. The book does not endorse positions but leaves it to each reader to try to make an informed decision about each issue.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Introduction: Settled and Not So Settled Issues
• Chapter 2: The Prosperity Gospel: From Abundance to Blaming the Poor
• Chapter 3: Afterlife: Heaven and Hell: What Happens After We Die?
• Chapter 4: Pre-Marital Sex: From Graduate School to Old Age
• Chapter 5: Homosexual Intimacy: Embracing Celibacy vs. Seeking Connection
• Chapter 6: Divorce
• Chapter 7: Abortion: Two Meanings of Respect for Life, the Right to Choose, and the Lesson of the Good Samaritan Parable
• Chapter 8: Physician-Assisted Suicide
• Chapter 9: The Death Penalty
• Chapter 10: Religion and Politics: From Presidential Elections to Christian Nationalism to “Let Them Eat Cake”
• Chapter 11: Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here?
• Bibliography