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This book gives me hope that i do not find in the church as an. Diana butler bass is the author of eight books on american religion, including christianity after religion, christianity for the rest of us, and a peoples history of christianity. While this african form of christianity largely shared the latin language and roman culture of the wider empire, it also represented a unique tradition that was shaped by its context. Not because it was difficult, but because it required me to look at questions that have lingered around my faith and life for years. Christianity, truth, and weakening faith truly marks an important set of occasions in which two of todays most prominent and perhaps controversial thinkers on christianity engage each others thoughts. Reason and religion at the end of the industrial age read ebook full.
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