Finding Faith: A Search for What Is Real Audiobook by Brian D. McLaren
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Title: Finding Faith: A Search for What Is Real Author: Brian D. McLaren Narrator: Maurice England Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 06-08-10 Publisher: Zondervan Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary: Does having faith mean abandoning reason? Its easy to get that impression. Still, it seems reasonable that a supremely intelligent God would want you to use your God-given intellect on your spiritual journey as much as in any other aspect of your life. Faith may not stand on rational thinking alone, but a solid faith should walk hand in hand with intellectual integrity. Does it really matter what I believe? What is the relationship between faith and knowledge? Why are there so many religions? Do all paths lead to the same God? This book helps you sort through the questions, objections, and concerns you cant help but raise. A Search for What Makes Sense will help you think your way clearly and honestly to answers that satisfy because theyre your answersconclusions youve arrived at personally without manipulation, coercion, or game-playing. For faith to exist and grow its got to make sensegood sense, carefully-thought-out sense. And chances are it does.

Members Reviews: Outstanding book, offering new light for your spiritual path. This is the book I wish I had written. Since I didn't, I am glad someone else wrote it and led me along the journey of faith in this sequence. McLaren begins with an honest look at our options when it comes to faith, beginning with the question of God's existence, examining atheism, agnosticism, and theism, then progressing along step by step with the reader on the journey. McLaren opens each chapter with a one page preview of what questions are answered, what is addressed, and a diagram explaining where he is going with the topic. This is helpful. He makes an admirable attempt to answer many of the questions he raises, but also admits that he is more concerned with helping the reader answer the questions. Rather than give what or why as it relates to God, McLaren points us to how to discover our own answers. This is both helpful and frustrating, as what I want are conclusive answers. Once again, it is clear that no such answers are forthcoming, but in this journey I have learned to be more comfortable with questions. McLaren ends with a close look at Jesus, and the ways that Christians have misrepresented him over the years. He also looks at how Jesus is positively represented, and why McLaren himself is a believer. Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life is to be seen as Jesus showing the way and being the way, not standing in the way as so many seem to place him today. Rather than view this as an exlusive phrase, McLaren sees it as an inclusive one, whereby Jesus invites IN those whom others have tried to keep OUT: the 'sinners', the tax collectors, the prostitutes, the least and the lost. McLaren very clearly outlines the 2 choices he felt he had regarding his spiritual journey. He could turn from the faith altogether, and go and do as he pleased, but that would be giving up entirely on his spiritual search. Or, he could continue to follow the well-worn path of his conservative yet exclusive and incomplete religious heritage. Thankfully, he saw a third way. A narrow path winding its way uphill between the other two, with Jesus' footprints in the dust. This is the way he chose, and this is the path he illuminates for you and me in the pages of Finding Faith.

Light-years beyond Josh McDowell style apologetics As a rather progressive postmodern recovering-Evangelical I found this book to be a breath of fresh-air.