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Dark, David, 1969-
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Dark, David, 1969-
Philosophical theology.
Apologetics.
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Life's too short to pretend you're not religious /
David
Dark
.
by
Dark
,
David
,
1969-
IVP Books, InterVarsity Press, 2016.
Call #:
230 D219L
Subjects
Philosophical theology.
Apologetics.
ISBN:
9780830844463 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Life is too short to pretend you are not religious
Description:
199 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199).
Contents:
Religion happens -- Crackers and grape juice -- Attention collection -- Choose your ancestors carefully -- I learned it by watching you -- Hurry up and matter! -- The web, the net, and the verse -- The chother -- Policy is liturgy writ large -- Strange negotiations.
Summary:
For many of us, the word "religious" immediately evokes thoughts of brainwashing, violence and eye-rubbingly tiresome conversations. Why not be done with it?
David
Dark
argues that it's not that simple. The ease with which we put the label on others without applying it to ourselves is an evasion, a way of avoiding awareness of our own messy allegiances.
Dark
writes: "If what we believe is what we see is what we do is who we are, there's no getting away from religion." Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious combines
Dark
's keen powers of cultural observation with candor and wit.
Dark
persuasively argues that the fact of religion is the fact of relationship. It's the shape our love takes, the lived witness of everything we're up to for better or worse, because witness knows no division. Looking hard at our weird religious background (
Dark
maintains we all have one) can bring the actual content of our everyday existence - the good, the bad and the glaringly inconsistent - to fuller consciousness. By doing so, we can more practically envision an undivided life and reclaim the idea of being "religious."
David
Dark
teaches in the College of Theology at Belmont University. He is the author of The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, Everyday Apocalypse and The Gospel According to America. He lives in Nashville.
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