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A carregar... Clear Winter Nights: A Journey into Truth, Doubt, and What Comes Afterpor Trevin Wax
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I had been wanting to read this for some time, and finally obtained a copy as a Kindle Deal Of The Day. It was worth the wait. Trevin Wax created an engaging story for his first novel. This is a story of a young man, named Chris, struggling with his faith, young love, friends who justify sin, and a father who deceived him for years. It's as if he is asking the ages old question, "What is truth?" Once the setting is established, the key part of the story unfolds during a visit with Chris' grandfather, a retired pastor in the twilight of his life. In many ways the story unfolds as a series of apologetics to the challenges Christians everywhere face, but it is also a story of a family torn apart by divorce, deception... sin, needing to better understand Christ-like forgiveness and faith. Clear Winter Nights is well worth the read. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Ultimately, that concern more for the hard logic than the surprising and gracious transformation of a heart into flesh manifests itself in a (semi-) Pelagian approach to Christianity where a believer's work of repentance is what is determinative, not faith and/or love. Consequently, like all Pelagians, Wax is kinder and has a more generous standards for those who he suspects are inside the faith than those who he suspects aren't. Sadly, even his more generous standard is more than Paul had in mind when he wrote Ephesians 2.
Most stunning, Wax identifies one set of criteria for determining whether a gay person is a Christian (on page 107) and another (less rigid) set for the hero (on page 113).
The book is acceptable for those already in a fundamentalist community, as it is often a softer and more gracious message than is commonly found in people who grew up under the fundamentalism of the mid-20th century. Beyond that audience, the book should only be recommended to those looking to get insight into the fundamentalist mind and should not be given to anyone as an evangelistic tool, for they are more likely to walk away sensing a judging works-based Christianity than a grace-filled one. ( )