Valerie Tarico

Trusting Doubt (eBook, ePUB)

A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Most Evangelical Christians earnestly strive to worship the God of Love and Truth. But a belief that the Bible is literally perfect can put them in the odd position of defending falsehood, bigotry, and even violence. What do Evangelicals believe? And how do these beliefs subvert humanity's shared moral values, including the compassionate ministry of Jesus in the New Testament? Is the Good Book even "good," given its historical inaccuracies, scientific impossibilities, and moral contradictions? Trusting Doubt answers all these questions ... and more. It also provides a clear picture of this variant of Christianity which has risen to political prominence at a spiritual cost. Raised in a staunch fundamentalist family and educated at Wheaton College - home of the Billy Graham Center for Evangelicalism - Valerie Tarico speaks as a former "insider." She offers alternative biblical, social, and scientific explanations that are compatible with contemporary Christianity, interfaith understanding, and non-theism. Gratefully, Tarico's unique voice as a former Evangelical provides a scholarly yet accessible path away from fundamentalism and toward spiritual clarity - a journey based on logic, love, and the quest for truth. [Revised edition of: The Dark Side © 2006]

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oracle Institute Press, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780977392964
• Artikelnr.: 62664209

Autorenporträt

Valerie Tarico, Ph.D., is a former fundamentalist Christian and graduate of Wheaton College, a bastion of Evangelical education. She holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Iowa and completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Washington. Trusting that her own doubts were morally meaningful, Dr. Tarico committed to follow her spiritual questions wherever they might lead. Ultimately they led her away from Evangelicalism. She now speaks to churches and secular groups on topics such as moral development, the psychology of belief, and wisdom convergence. In 2008, in response to Seeds of Compassion, Dr. Tarico founded WisdomCommons.org, an interactive website that allows users to find and discuss information on universal ethics - values that are shared across secular and religious wisdom traditions. She writes regularly for The Huffington Post and ExChristian.net where she sustains a lucid critique of fundamentalist religion in light of recent scholarship in social sciences. Her articles can be found at www.ValerieTarico.com and followed at Twitter (ValerieTarico).