When Faith Turns Ugly : Understanding Toxic Faith and How to Avoid It.

Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Jekyll or Hyde: More Than a Minor Dilemma -- A Perplexing Problem -- Intra- and Inter-Faith Differences -- Faith as an Opiate -- Faith as Illusion -- Faith as Poisonous -- Some Ways Forward -- On Not Defending Fundamentalism -- In Conversation with Victor Owuor -- To Ponder and Discuss -- 2 What about Other Religions? -- Getting Going -- When Faiths Encounter Each Other -- But the Bible Is Not Sympathetic to Other Faiths . . . -- But I Believe My Faith Is True . . . -- What about Different Versions of Our Own Faith? -- In Conversation with Lloyd Porter -- To Ponder and Discuss -- 3 Marx: Faith as Escapism -- Religion, the Opiate of the Masses? -- Is Worship Escapism? -- Is a Contemplative Lifestyle Escapism? -- Seven Risks to Watch Out For -- In Conversation with Travis Fitch -- To Ponder and Discuss -- 4 Freud: Faith as Illusion -- A Father Christmas Faith? -- Extrinsic, Intrinsic and Quest Religious Orientations -- The Explanatory Power of the Christian Metanarrative -- What Does This Mean? -- In Conversation with Yvonne Kilpatrick -- To Ponder and Discuss -- 5 Hitchens: Faith as Poisonous -- An Encouraging Story -- Attitudes to Avoid -- Systemic Risks -- Regaining the Right to Be Prophetic -- In Conversation with Deborah Hurn -- To Ponder and Discuss -- 6 And What About . . . ? Some Other Temptations -- A Worrying Story -- Leadership Traps -- Forgetting That People Matter -- Cultivating Burnout -- Muddled Thinking -- In Conversation with Dianne Tidball -- To Ponder and Discuss -- 7 Contours for a Transforming Christian World View -- The Link between Belief and Lifestyle -- Six Common Problem Areas -- Piecing This Together -- In Conversation with Stephen O'Doherty -- To Ponder and Discuss -- 8 Life-Serving Faith: Transformed Individuals -- The Big Picture.

What 'Whole in Christ' Might Look Like: An Orthopathy Filter -- When Orthodoxy, Orthopraxy and Orthopathy Meet: Ten Signs -- Putting It Together -- In Conversation with Rob Furlong -- To Ponder and Discuss -- 9 Life-Serving Faith: The Global Impact -- A Heartening Claim -- Snapshots from the Early Church -- Contemporary Options -- In Conversation with Phillip Nash -- To Ponder and Discuss -- 10 Theology Matters: The Case for a Core Conviction -- Some Background -- Why This Topic? -- Discovering Grenz -- The Case for a Core Conviction -- In Conversation with Becky Oates -- To Ponder and Discuss -- 11 A Closing Portrait: The Jesus Question -- The Jesus Question -- The 'I Am' Claims -- In Conversation with Peter Christofides -- To Ponder and Discuss -- Bibliography -- Endnotes.

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