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Doubting: Growing Through the Uncertainties of Faith, By Alister McGrath

Doubting

Growing Through the Uncertainties of Faith

by Alister McGrath
Foreword by Ravi Zacharias

Doubting
Paperback
$23.99
  • Length: 156 pages
  • Dimensions: 5.5 × 8.25 in
  • Published: December 05, 2006
  • Imprint: IVP
  • ISBN: 9780830833528

We live in a culture that doubts everything as a matter of principle. In such an environment, how can even faith be immune to doubt? Can I really trust in the gospel?Does God really love me?Can I really be of any use to God?We are taught to doubtbut commanded to believe. Somehow we think that admitting to doubt is tantamount to insulting God. But doubt is not a sign of spiritual weakness--rather it's an indication of spiritual growing pains.Alister McGrath, no stranger to a faith born of doubt, here offers good news to doubters: your faith can grow, and strengthen as it grows. It needs to take root in your experience of God, it needs to take in the nourishment of instruction in the words and ways of God, it needs to be stretched into greater obedience to the commands and calling of God--but it can grow beyond doubt into a thriving relationship.

CONTENTS

Foreword by Ravi Zacharias
Preface
1. Doubt: What It Is--and What It Isn't
2. Doubt and the Vain Search for Certainty
3. Doubt in Other Worldviews: The Case of Atheism
4. The Personal Aspects of Doubt
5. Doubt in theBible: Analogies and Images
6. Doubts About the Gospel
7. Doubts About Yourself
8. Doubts About Jesus Christ
9. Doubts About God
10. Doubt: How to Handle It
11. Doubt: Putting It in Perspective
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ABOUT Alister McGrath

Alister McGrath

Alister McGrath is the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at Oxford, and (from 2015 to 2018) Gresham Professor of Divinity. His previous posts include Professor of Theology and Education at King’s College, London, and Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University. Alister gained first class honours from Oxford University in Chemistry (1975) and first class honours in Theology (1978).He holds an Oxford DPhil (1978) for his research in molecular biology, a DD from Oxford University’s Faculty of Theology for his work in historical and systematic theology (2001), and a DLitt from Oxford University’s Division of Humanities for his research in science and religion (2013). He was elected FRSA in 2005, in recognition of his work as a public intellectual.

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