Overview
Journalist-educator David Yount offers clear explanations to common questions about Christianity. He looks to faith to understand a world that seems more complicated every day. This is a book for everyone who has ever felt that they had to endure--rather than enjoy--a church service, and who would like an understanding of personal faith that goes deeper than what Sunday School teaches.Yount discusses the aspects of Christianity that prompt the most questions and provides thought-provoking answers. He demonstrates how to overcome reluctance, take on more difficult aspects of faith, and become attached to a church. Foreword by Lord Donals Coggan, 101 Archbishop of Canterbury.
Synopsis
Young covers everything from church history...to worship and prayer...this is an excellent book. --Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly
``This book is dedicated . . . to all those . . . who consider themselves Christian but . . . are unsure of their beliefs . . . and to the millions of church-going Christians whose faith was formed and informed in childhood but is stuck there.'' With these words Yount, a former clergyman and now chairman of the Seminary at the Washington National Cathedral, opens a work of astounding depth and thoroughness. Yount covers everything from traditional church history and personal relationships with Jesus to liturgy, worship and prayer as well as a catalogue of problems ranging from the unpopularity of many messages implicit in Christianity to the unresolvable mysteries explicit in Christian and Jewish scripture. There are incisive questions for study after each chapter and three appendices for further help in guided reading and the nurture of faith. Suitable for groups or individuals, this is an excellent book. (July)