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In I Want to Believe, Mel Lawrenz ignites a latent desire that is in readers already—the desire to believe in something bigger than themselves. Wanting to provide a new language for faith like readers found in Blue Like Jazz and Velvet Elvis, Lawrenz takes an honest dive into topics that are true areas of tension—doubt, rebirth, faith and action and the essence of Christian faith. A fresh and engaging style draws readers into an unexpected conversation in which they receive concrete, concise descriptions of Christian faith in principle and in real life, and are shown contrasts with other faith alternatives. The chapters are skillful interweavings of narrative, illustration, and biblical reflection. Throughout the book, readers are assured that doubts are part of believing and that hardships in life do not contradict faith. For believers and seekers alike, I Want to Believe will fan the flame of faith and affirm the quest for believing.
Deconstructing the Big Book of Stories is New but autographed to someone else. The West since the Enlightenment has wrestled with the basis of truth, gradually evolving from an epistemology of revealed truth toward the reliance upon reason and empiricism. Subsequently, modernity's emphasis on universal knowledge was supplanted by post-modernity's focus on individual validity and subjective reality. What is Truth? That simple refrain, at the heart of Dr Emery Twoey's book, echoes from the past and reverberates in the present. As Pilate queried Jesus Christ, so our culture today beckons scholars who seek to defend the idea of universal truth and critique the voices of subjectivism.
