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this is a compelling book, challenging Christians and atheists alike. He presents a deeply authentic spirituality which reaches into the profound mystery at the centre of Christian faith. --Rt Revd Laurie Green, Bishop of Bradwell
Writing with an admirable lucidity and following a tight line of argument, Michael Hampson outlines a credible Christian theology for the twenty-first century. --Canon David Peacock, Former Pro-Rector, University of Surrey Roehampton
Western Christianity is at a major impasse, and this book gives you the major reasons why. As long as we have a punitive, petty God, whose love is entirely conditional, how can we expect history to be any different? Thank you, Michael Hampson! --Fr Richard Rohr OFM, author of " Everything Belongs"
Writing with an admirable lucidity and following a tight line of argument, Michael Hampson outlines a credible Christian theology for the twenty-first century. --Canon David Peacock, Former Pro-Rector, University of Surrey Roehampton
Western Christianity is at a major impasse, and this book gives you the major reasons why. As long as we have a punitive, petty God, whose love is entirely conditional, how can we expect history to be any different? Thank you, Michael Hampson! --Fr Richard Rohr OFM, author of " Everything Belongs"
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God without God takes the atheist case against God as a premise, then examines what remains of the western spiritual tradition when the God of presumptive monotheism is removed. It finds right at the heart of the tradition a concept of God, a concept of the divine, far more complex and mysterious than that which the atheist rightly rejects. Far from being destroyed or diminished, the tradition flourishes in its liberation. Tackling every issue head-on, the major sections are God, Ethics, Bible, Creed, and 'Home life, Sex and Gender'. God is the ground of all being and the sum of all divinity, the ultimate reality and mystery at the heart of our existence. The ethical system is the call to full humanity: integrity and compassion in place of disintegration. The bible and the creed come alive with new insights once the false god defined and rejected by atheism is removed from the frame of reference. The final section on home life, sex and gender uncovers more surprising and radical insights from and into the authentic western spiritual tradition. The tradition emerges with a timeless and profound integrity for body, mind and spirit.
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I approached this book with high hopes, having enjoyed the author's previous work on the current state of the Church of England and being drawn by his title: the project of rethinking Western spirituality without the traditional image of a judging regal God is still one that the churches badly need to engage in. Apart from redefining some key areas of Christian life and thought, however, Michael Hampson does not go far into his chosen subject. His book is also strangely constructed. He devotes fifty pages to issues of sexuality, but in them for the most part does little more than set out current areas of concern or interest (these include intersex and mosaicism - no, I had never heard of that either), while offering not much in the way of analysis of how they relate to his main theme. As one who has suffered from prejudice against gays in the Church he naturally wishes to demonstrate the validity and equality of homosexual eros, but a lot of this part reads like special pleading.Michael Hampson has a very rosy view of the Roman Catholic Church which he clearly does not know from the inside. As one who has made the journey from Anglicanism to Rome it is apparent to me that the wrathful king image of God is alive and well for many Catholics. He can even be said to be making a bit of a come-back after the Vatican II interlude. Official documents and statements often give a most misleading impression of what things are really like in the Church, especially when read in Michael Hampson's way of giving every possible benefit of the doubt. In fact he seems so eager to align contemporary Roman Catholicism with his renewed spirituality that he sounds a little like the old style of Anglo-Catholic who would automatically laud to the skies all things Roman while equally automatically denigrating everything Anglican. Perhaps it was too much to expect a comprehensive treatment of a wide-ranging theme. Michael Hampson offers a useful sketch of one.
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This review is from: God Without God: Western Spirituality Without the Wrathful King (Paperback)
I finally got the image out of my head of an "old man God" up in the sky judging us for our wrongdoing.
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