Putting Away Childish Things: A Novel of Modern Faith Paperback - 2011
by Marcus J. Borg
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In Putting Away Childish Things, Marcus Borg weaves his insightful teachings on Christianity into a new form--fiction. In this compelling tale, we meet Kate--a popular religion professor at a liberal arts college in a small midwestern town who thinks her life is right on track. She loves her job, is happy with her personal and spiritual life, and her guilty pleasure consists of passing her afternoons at the local pub with a pint of Guinness and a cigarette. Life is good.
Kate is up for tenure when it all starts to go wrong. A colleague warns her that her books are too Christian and too popular. She is offered a visiting professor job at a prestigious seminary, which sounds like the perfect solution except for one complication--it is the same seminary that employs the professor she had an affair with years ago. Kate now has to face her past and watch as the ramifications unfold in ways she never imagined. In the classroom, students ask for her views on Jesus, the Bible, and homosexuality, controversial topics that Kate candidly addresses until outraged parents start campaigning for the school to get rid of her. Through it all, Kate faces the toughest challenge yet--a crisis of faith that leaves her questioning what she believed so strongly before.
Putting Away Childish Things is an engaging way for readers to learn about the important issues dividing Christians today. Along the way, we join with the characters to ask the hard questions such as what does the Bible really teach? Who is Jesus? What is the nature of faith today?
This is a story that promises to leave us different in the end than when we started, as we learn how even in the twenty-first century, God works in mysterious ways.
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- Title Putting Away Childish Things: A Novel of Modern Faith
- Author Marcus J. Borg
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperOne, New York, New York
- Date 2011-05-03
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780061888168 / 0061888168
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.12 x 5.27 x 0.91 in (20.62 x 13.39 x 2.31 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Theometrics: Academic
- Theometrics: Secular
- Library of Congress subjects Christian fiction, Women college teachers
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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