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The God Who Wasn't There

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Robert M. Price

Professor of Theology and Scriptural Studies, Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary

Founder and Editor, The Journal of Higher Criticism

Fellow, The Jesus Seminar

Executive Board Member, The Jesus Project

Fellow, The Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion

Research Fellow, Center for Inquiry Institute

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Last update: June 16, 2009

Thirty new postings to the heretical Sermons Page with more to come

In Spirit and in Truth	What Is Truth?
Real Sin	Spin Doctor
A Field of Ruins	Prophecy and Truth
The Cosmic Cross	Fade Away and Radiate
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Inerrant the Wind: The Evangelical Crisis in Biblical Authority by Robert M Price Inerrant the Wind argues that the 1970s witnessed a second Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy, explain- ing what trends in Neo-Evangelicalism led to the "Battle for the Bible" among conservative evangelicals. It is the only book to clarify and delineate five distinct new positions taken on Biblical authority by evangelicals who reject inerrancy. The book has been acclaimed by evangelical theologians for its helpful critical insights. NOW AVAILABLE ORDER

 

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When Faith Meets Reason: Religion Scholars Reflect on Their Faith Journeys   Polebridge Press has just released a very special title, When Faith Meets Reason: Religion Scholars Reflect on Their Faith Journeys. In its pages, Fellows of the Jesus Seminar address a question that troubles many people: What happens to faith when the creeds and confessions can no longer be squared with historical and empirical evidence? Most critical scholars have also wrestled with this question. Some have found ways to reconcile their personal religious belief with the scholarship they practice. Others have chosen to reconstruct their view of religious meaning in light of what they have learned. But few have shared those views publicly. At the behest of editor Charles W. Hedrick, thirteen scholars have taken up the challenge to speak candidly about how they negotiate the conflicting demands of faith and reason. Contibutors include: Charles W. Hedrick, Glenna Jackson, Nigel Leaves, Robert M. Price, Paul Alan Laughlin, James M. Robinson, Mahlon H. Smith, Theodore J. Weeden, Sr., Walter Wink, David Galston, Darren J. N. Middleton, Susan M. Elliott, and Hal Taussig. It features a preface by Robert W. Funk. The October 1, 2008 issue of the Library Journal describes the book as follows, In a slender book rich with large and profound ideas, Hedrick collects 13 essays solicited from scholars in religion (including himself) that answer the broad question of how faith is understood when it conflicts with reason, science, or scholarship. Their answers are remarkably varied, painfully honest, and profoundly respectful of Christian tradition and newer truths alike. According to Richard Holloway, Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (retired), The great thing about this book is that it is not trying to convert you to anything. Here you'll find a group of scholars letting us in on some of their most precious and private convictions. The book is descriptive, not prescriptive. It tells you what the writers see from the very different places where they now stand. Readers may or may not find their own perspective reflected here, though Robert M. Price's essay was an uncanny representation of my own position. This book could lead to a dangerous epidemic of honesty among religious thinkers.

 

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Top Secret The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms By Robert M. Price America may be the land of plenty, but in the midst of our Walmarts, enormous supermarkets, and other signs of material surfeit, it seems that many are experiencing a gnawing spiritual hunger. New religions, spiritualities, and religious therapies attract throngs of believers to megachurches, Yoga classes, and the bestseller bookshelves. The latest popular fad in spirituality is Rhonda Byrne's The Secret, which promises both success and spiritual fulfillment, and is endorsed by no less than Oprah Winfrey. If you're trying to make sense of all the offerings in this confusing spiritual wonderland, Top Secret is just the book for you. Noted religion scholar Robert M. Price examines the historical roots and the current appeal of today's pop mysticisms. Critical and appreciative at the same time, Price applies his impressive background in theology and biblical criticism to put these trends in perspective.  Purchase Listen to Interview Price discusses Top Secret with host of Point of Inquiry, David Grothe.

 

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Jesus is Dead By Robert M. Price This collection of writings on the resurrection of Jesus (or lack of it) represents a selection of debate statements, books reviews, and critiques of internet papers, as well as research reports and original papers. Price considers the views of older apologists F.F. Bruce, John Warwick Montgomery, and Josh McDowell, as well as newer ones like N.T. Wright, William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, James Patrick Holding, and Glenn Miller. The critical views of Andrew J.M. Wedderburn, Gregory J. Riley, and Jonathan Z. Smith receive scrutiny as well. Nor do quack books dealing with an alien Jesus or with the Templar Jesus escape notice.   Purchase

 

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THE PAPERBACK APOCALYPSE: How the Christian Church was LEFT BEHIND By Robert M. Price Purchase

 

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The Reason Driven Life: What Am I Here on Earth For? By Robert M. Price, foreword by Julia Sweeney Interview   From the Back Cover: “In his own inimitable style, Robert Price in this volume challenges Rick Warren’s bestselling book: A Purpose-Driven Life. With the rapier’s sword of Price’s insight wrapped in a devastating sense of humor, he leaves not just Warren but all similar fundamentalistic religious leaders bleeding and exposed for what they are: anxiety driven, survival seeking, power hungry people masquerading under the banner of piety or hiding behind the sounds of the sacred.”           —John Shelby Spong Author of A New Christianity for a New World ************************  “The wittiest, most thorough, and most devastating critique of the religion of the Evangelicals that I have ever read. It left me wondering how the religion of great Protestant heroes of faith like Luther and Bunyan can have turned into the inane religion of Ned Flanders, Homer Simpson’s neighbor.”  —Don Cupitt  Anglican priest, fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge University, religious philosopher, and the author of forty books ************************ “The Reason-Driven Life is a no-holds-barred polemic against a piece of popular evangelical theology and will make any and all readers think.”  —Clark H. Pinnock  Professor Emeritus of Theology at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario ************************ Foreword by Julia Sweeney "[The Reason Driven Life] is a deeply thought out, theologically accurate, heartfelt dismantling of Rick Warren’s (and all Evangelicals’) worldview. Even the ideas that seem, on the surface, to be unassailable (like Warren’s call to a life of service to others) Price takes apart, reveals each for the sham it is, with elegance and charm and disturbing accuracy. "  -Julia Sweeney formally of Saturday Night Live, from the foreword Will devotees of Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life take up the gauntlet and reckon with Reason? This chapter by chapter rejoinder to Warren's book is a vital counterpoint to the culturally stultifying world view that Warren promotes and that countless millions have embraced uncritically. Along with compelling criticism, The Reason Driven Life offers a healthier, alternative approach to wisdom and motivation than the simplistic answers and feel-good emotionalism at the heart of Warren’s prescription for life. ********* Read Julia Sweeney's Foreword Order The Reason Driven Life Interview

 

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A DOCUMENTARY ASSERTING THAT JESUS CHRIST NEVER EXISTED Bowling for Columbine did it to the gun culture. Super Size Me did it to fast food. Now The God Who Wasn't There does it to religion.

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