The Re-birth of a Born-Again Christian
eBook - ePub

The Re-birth of a Born-Again Christian

A Memoir

  1. 130 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Re-birth of a Born-Again Christian

A Memoir

About this book

Lightly tracing his personal experiences growing up in the Bible Belt as a born-again Christian, James A. Sanders recounts his second rebirth experience and subsequent efforts to battle what can most broadly be called evangelicalism's denial of dignity and human worth to those different from the so-called norm. While Sanders cherishes his early experience of being "saved" or "born again," he has become deeply concerned at what has happened to the evangelical movement in America, especially in its being politicized and removed from any kind of valid interpretation of the Bible itself. Sanders critiques evangelicalism for restricting the Holy Spirit's work to the realm of personal experience and so for denying the Spirit's work in society to move believers beyond the ancient mores and metaphors that biblical authors and editors used to record God's work in antiquity. Sanders proposes that Christians read the Bible honestly in its ancient and moral contexts, and attempt with humility to register its prophetic condemnation of tribal views of God, in order to heed the Spirit's urgings to engage in the advancing monotheizing process that the Bible demands of its adherents.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Prologue
  3. Chapter 1: Lucerne Place
  4. Chapter 2: Born Again
  5. Chapter 3: Vanderbilt University
  6. Chapter 4: Belgium and North Africa
  7. Chapter 5: Lake Junaluska
  8. Chapter 6: A Wedding in Paris
  9. Chapter 7: Hebrew Union College
  10. Chapter 8: Colgate Rochester Divinity School
  11. Chapter 9: The Psalms Scroll
  12. Chapter 10: Racism in Rochester
  13. Chapter 11: The Six-Day War
  14. Chapter 12: Abraham Joshua Heschel
  15. Chapter 13: The Hebrew Old Testament Text Project
  16. Chapter 14: South Africa
  17. Chapter 15: Union Seminary’s Future
  18. Chapter 16: Gardner Taylor and Concord Church
  19. Chapter 17: Counseling LGBT Ministers
  20. Chapter 18: Claremont
  21. Chapter 19: The Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center
  22. Chapter 20: South Africa, and the Republican Party
  23. Chapter 21: Bellagio, Fribourg, and Glasgow
  24. Chapter 22: Heidelberg, The Vatican, and Retirement
  25. Appendix: The Betrayal of Evangelicalism
  26. Post-Scriptum: Dora Geil Cargille Sanders 1928–2016