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  • Dimensions: 20 x 117 x 175 mm
  • Weight: 0.250kg
  • Pages: 188

Orthodox Heretic, The

Rollins Peter

Hardback. 188 pages.

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For so many the Christian faith is viewed as little more than a drug that enables the weak to escape reality. An opiate that helps its users to avoid facing the injustice of the world and making a stand against it. In short, the Christian faith is perceived to be a counter-revolutionary ideology that keeps people passive, infantile and ineffectual.

In contrast Rollins has created a series of parables that shatter this popular perception. Parables that demonstrate how radical faith has never been concerned with escaping the world we inhabit but rather with engaging in it more fully. That genuine Christian faith has never capitulated to injustice but rather fought against it at every turn.

"I remember driving around Belfast with Pete, sitting in the front seat listening to him tell these parables that he'd written - thinking, 'Everybody needs to hear these.' And now you can."
Rob Bell, author of Jesus Wants to Save Christians

"Rollins is a tremendously talented writer and thinker whose challenges to Christianity-as-usual should be well-received by the emergent church crowd, if not beyond"
-Publishers Weekly
-Publisher.

Rollins Peter
Peter Rollins (PhD., Queen's University, Belfast dealing with post-secular religious theory) is a writer, public speaker, lecturer and co-ordinator of the experimental collective Ikon (www.ikon.org.uk). Together these diverse activities ensure that I have the privilege of engaging in that difficult job of marrying activism with theory, the public square with the academy. He is the author of How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church, The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief and The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales.
-Editorial Review- Koorong.
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