Evangelical Anxiety

Evangelical Anxiety
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9780062862761
ISBN-13 : 0062862766
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Evangelical Anxiety by : Charles Marsh

In this riveting spiritual memoir, the writer, scholar, and commentator tells the story of his struggles with mental illness, explores the void between the Christian faith and scientific treatment, and forges a path toward reconciling these divergent worlds. For years, Charles Marsh suffered panic attacks and debilitating anxiety. As an Evangelical Christian, he was taught to trust in the power of God and His will. While his Christian community resisted therapy and personal introspection, Marsh eventually knew he needed help. To alleviate his suffering, he made the bold decision to seek medical treatment and underwent years of psychoanalysis. In this riveting spiritual memoir, Marsh tells the story of his struggle to find peace and the dramatic, inspiring transformation that redefined his life and his faith. He examines the tensions between faith and science and reflects on how his own experiences offer hope for bridging the gap between the two. Honest and revealing, Marsh traces the roots of shame, examines Christian notions of sex, faith, and mental illness and their genesis, and chronicles how he redefined his beliefs and rebuilt his relationship with his community. A poignant and vital story of deep soul work, Evangelical Anxiety helps us look beyond the stigma that leaves too many people in pain and offers people of faith a way forward to find the help they need while remaining true to their beliefs.

Good News for Anxious Christians, expanded ed.

Good News for Anxious Christians, expanded ed.
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Publisher : Baker Books
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9781493437566
ISBN-13 : 1493437569
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Good News for Anxious Christians, expanded ed. by : Phillip Cary

A talented teacher unpacks the riches of traditional Christian spirituality for Christians burdened by the guilt and anxiety of introspective, in-my-heart spiritual techniques. Phillip Cary explains that knowing God is a gradual, long-term process that comes through the gospel experienced in Christian community. The first edition has sold over 17,000 copies. The expanded edition includes a new afterword that offers further insights since the first edition was published over ten years ago.

The Failure of Evangelical Mental Health Care

The Failure of Evangelical Mental Health Care
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9781476617428
ISBN-13 : 1476617422
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis The Failure of Evangelical Mental Health Care by : John Weaver

In the evangelical community, a variety of alternative mental health treatments--deliverance/exorcism, biblical counseling, reparative therapy and many others--have been proposed for the treatment of mentally ill, female and LGBT evangelicals. This book traces the history of these methods, focusing on the major proponents of each therapeutic system while also examining mainstream evangelical psychology. The author concludes that in the majority of cases mental disorders are blamed on two main issues--sin and demonic possession/oppression--and that as a result some communities have become a mental health underclass who are ill-served or oppressed by both alternative and mainstream evangelical therapeutic systems. He argues that the only recourse left for mentally ill, female and LGBT evangelicals is to rally for reform and increased accountability for both professional and alternative evangelical practitioners.

The Anxious Christian

The Anxious Christian
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Publisher : Moody Publishers
Total Pages : 170
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ISBN-10 : 9780802479099
ISBN-13 : 080247909X
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis The Anxious Christian by : Rhett Smith

Is anxiety “un-Christian”? Many Christians believe the answer to this question is yes! Understandably, then, many Christians feel shame when they are anxious. They especially feel this shame when well-intentioned fellow believers dismiss or devalue anxiety with Christian platitudes and Bible verses. Rhett Smith, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, helps us understand anxiety in a new way. Rhett argues that, rather than being destructive or shameful, anxiety can be a catalyst for our spiritual growth. Using Biblical thinking and personal examples, Rhett explains how anxiety allows us to face our resistance and fears, understand where those fears come from, and then make intentional decisions about issues such as career, marriage, money, and our spiritual lives. Allow this book to challenge your view of anxiety, and allow God to use your anxiety for good.

An Anxious Age

An Anxious Age
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Publisher : Image
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9780385521468
ISBN-13 : 0385521464
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis An Anxious Age by : Joseph Bottum

We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of food fads, and the chattering classes of television commentators: America is filled with people frantically seeking confirmation of their own essential goodness. We are a nation desperate to stand of the side of morality--to know that we are righteous and dwell in the light. In An Anxious Age, Joseph Bottum offers an account of modern America, presented as a morality tale formed by a collision of spiritual disturbances. And the cause, he claims, is the most significant and least noticed historical fact of the last fifty years: the collapse of the mainline Protestant churches that were the source of social consensus and cultural unity. Our dangerous spiritual anxieties, broken loose from the churches that once contained them, now madden everything in American life. Updating The Protestant Ethic and the Sprit of Capitalism, Max Weber's sociological classic, An Anxious Age undertakes two case studies of contemporary social classes adrift in a nation without the religious understandings that gave them meaning. Looking at the college-educated elite he calls "the Poster Children," Bottum sees the post-Protestant heirs of the old mainline Protestant domination of culture: dutiful descendants who claim the high social position of their Christian ancestors even while they reject their ancestors' Christianity. Turning to the Swallows of Capistrano, the Catholics formed by the pontificate of John Paul II, Bottum evaluates the early victories--and later defeats--of the attempt to substitute Catholicism for the dying mainline voice in public life. Sweeping across American intellectual and cultural history, An Anxious Age traces the course of national religion and warns about the strange angels and even stranger demons with which we now wrestle. Insightful and contrarian, wise and unexpected, An Anxious Age ranks among the great modern accounts of American culture.

Anxiety Spiritual Healing

Anxiety Spiritual Healing
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Publisher : Independently Published
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 1797013629
ISBN-13 : 9781797013626
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Anxiety Spiritual Healing by : Pablo Roman Caballero

What if I told you that God is personally invested in your success? What if I told you that God can turn your anxiety into a blessing? Most people have no idea what it is like to suffer the pain provoked by this disease. But God knows, and He wants to comfort you. This book will help you: 1. Discover the real reasons why you are feeling anxious 2. Examine your thoughts and feelings 3. Learn how to lean more on God and less on you 4. Learn how to overcome fear and stress 5. Discover God's promises of happiness for your life 6. Reconcile with your past 7. Pray for your spiritual healing Download now and read it as many times as you wish, I'm sure that God will speak directly to your spirit each time.

After Evangelicalism

After Evangelicalism
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Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9781646980048
ISBN-13 : 1646980042
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis After Evangelicalism by : David P. Gushee

Named one of the Top 10 Books of the Year in 2020 by the Academy of Parish Clergy "Drawing on his own spiritual journey, David Gushee provides an incisive critique of American evangelicalism [and] offers a succinct yet deeply informed guide for post-evangelicals seeking to pursue Christ-honoring lives." —Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Calvin University Millions are getting lost in the evangelical maze: inerrancy, indifference to the environment, deterministic Calvinism, purity culture, racism, LGBTQ discrimination, male dominance, and Christian nationalism. They are now conscientious objectors, deconstructionists, perhaps even "none and done." As one of America's leading academics speaking to the issues of religion today, David Gushee offers a clear assessment and a new way forward for disillusioned post-evangelicals. Gushee starts by analyzing what went wrong with U.S. white evangelicalism in areas such as evangelical history and identity, biblicism, uncredible theologies, and the fundamentalist understandings of race, politics, and sexuality. Along the way, he proposes new ways of Christian believing and of listening to God and Jesus today. He helps post-evangelicals know how to belong and behave, going from where they are to a living relationship with Christ and an intellectually cogent and morally robust post-evangelical faith. He shows that they can have a principled way of understanding Scripture, a community of Christ's people, a healthy politics, and can repent and learn to listen to people on the margins. With a foreword from Brian McLaren, who says, “David Gushee is right: there is indeed life after evangelicalism,” this book offers an essential handbook for those looking for answers and affirmation of their journey into a future that is post-evangelical but still centered on Jesus. If you, too, are struggling, After Evangelicalism shows that it is possible to cut loose from evangelical Christianity and, more than that, it is necessary.

Flee, Be Silent, Pray

Flee, Be Silent, Pray
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Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 9781513804361
ISBN-13 : 1513804367
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Flee, Be Silent, Pray by : Ed Cyzewski

What if prayer could be simple rather than strenuous? Anxious, results-driven Christians can never pray enough, serve enough, or study enough. But what if God is calling us not to frenzied activity but to a simple spiritual encounter? What if we must merely receive what God has already given us? In Flee, Be Silent, Pray, writer and contemplative retreat leader Ed Cyzewski guides readers out of the anxiety factory of contemporary Christianity and toward a God whose love astounds those quiet long enough to receive it. With helpful guidance into solitude, contemplative prayer, and practices such as lectio divina and the Examen, Cyzewski guides readers toward the Christ whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light. Ready to shed the fear of the false self and the exhaustion of a duty-driven faith? Flee. Be silent. Pray.

Gospel Fluency

Gospel Fluency
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Publisher : Crossway
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9781433546068
ISBN-13 : 143354606X
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Gospel Fluency by : Jeff Vanderstelt

flu·en·cy / noun :the ability to speak a language easily and effectively Even if they want to, many Christians find it hard to talk to others about Jesus. Is it possible this difficulty is because we're trying to speak a language we haven't actually spent time practicing? To become fluent in a new language, you must immerse yourself in it until you actually start to think about life through it. Becoming fluent in the gospel happens the same way—after believing it, we have to intentionally rehearse it (to ourselves and to others) and immerse ourselves in its truths. Only then will we start to see how everything in our lives, from the mundane to the magnificent, is transformed by the hope of the gospel.

A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends

A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends
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Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages : 138
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ISBN-10 : 9781611646948
ISBN-13 : 1611646944
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends by : David P. Gushee

The last few years have seen dizzying social change in the United States. Many of these changes—such as the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage—seem to challenge or overturn long-standing Christian teachings, while disputes over issues such as immigration, racism, and the abuse of police authority create uncertainty and confusion about what a faithful Christian response looks like. Small wonder, then, that the dominant mood among many Christians is anxiety about what it means to be a follower of Jesus in the world today. In a clear and readable style, leading Christian ethicist David P. Gushee explores the many social and political changes that are causing Christian anxiety, offering ways to understand and act on these issues that are grounded in the reign of God rather than in human fear. What do we see when we look at a given political issue, argument, or candidate? What do we wish to see? And what might Christian faith contribute to seeing, interpreting, and acting rightly in this particular moment? Gushee helps average Christians think through and make sense of their fears and anxieties about rapid social change in American society, showing how our faith is calling us not to fear and worry but to hope.