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CrossCurrents: Making Sense of the Christian Life

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This is a look at current Christian issues.  These books are discussed: When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner;  How Should We Then Live?  and The Great Evangelical Disaster by Francis A. Schaeffer; Love Wins by Rob Bell; Calvinism: A Southern Baptist Dialogue by Ray Clendenen and Brad Waggoner; God of the Possible by Gregory A. Boyd; and  Salvation and Sovereignty: A Molinist Approach by Kenneth Keathley.
The book considers several theological approaches to resolving the issues that divide Christians, especially the divide between Calvinists and Arminians.  It attempts to answer such questions as:  "Why does God let us hurt?"All Rights Reserved

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I don't need your God

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