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sacredness, 233
salvation, 34, 35, 138, 195–196,276n10
Satan, 87–88
scapegoating, 175
Schaller, Lyle, 247
science, 14–16, 68, 70, 177–178
science fiction films, 123–124
Scofield Reference Bible, 191
second coming, 197–198
security quest, 229–230, 233, 237
self-differentiation, 245, 295n4
sexuality: challenges of modern, 175, 187–190; heterosexuality, 175, 179, 180, 186–187; homosexuality, 175–180, 185, 187, 274n6; questions about, 20–21; reconciliation and the Ethiopian eunuch, 181–184,
186; repressive fundasexuality,
173–175, 189; tension between exclusion/inclusion and, 185–186
sin, 34, 41, 58, 147–148, 238–240. See also original sin
slavery: Biblical defense of, 71–76,
178, 275n2; history of, 70–71; justification of, 231; and message of Jesus, 127, 133; metaphor in
Romans, 150, 151
social dualism: breaking out of, 215,
233; distortion of Jesus and,
121–122; in early church, 143, 144,
147–148; Greco-Roman, 39–40; pluralism displacing, 210–214; subsumed in Paul’s message, 150–152,
211; using scripture to justify, 69–70
social issues, 69, 76, 122, 127–128,
135, 192. See also slavery
social movements, 248–249
sola scriptura (scripture alone), 91–92
“soul-sort” universe, 195, 203
spiritual growth, 238–240
spiritual immigrants, 247–248
spiritual maturity, 166, 168–169
spiritual pride, 147–148, 153, 234, 237 Star Trek (films), 123–124
STDs (sexually transmitted diseases),187–189
story line of the Bible. See biblical narrative
superiority complex, 39, 265n7
superstition, 39, 214, 229
survival quest, 229
syncretism, 41
Talladega Nights (film), 120–121
teenage sex, 187, 188, 282n13
temple, 64, 185, 192, 199, 210,219–220
theology of institutions, 248
Thomas, 220–221
3-D participatory eschatology, 193–197,283n5
three-dimensional biblical narrative: in baptism of Ethiopian eunuch, 183–184; creation/reconciliation in Genesis, 54, 56, 58–59, 129–131; dream of the peaceable kingdom, 59, 62–64, 132–135; eschatology of, 193–197, 203–204; God of the, 65–66; and the gospel, 128–129, 135–136, 140; liberation/formation in Exodus, 56–59, 131–132. See also frontwards reading
Tickle, Phyllis, 11, 12
Tise, Larry E., 71
torture, 69, 99, 193, 215, 230
total depravity, 35, 37, 266n15
tradition, 258
transcendence, 234–239
Trueblood, Elton, 114
truth, 231–235, 237
ubuntu (interconnectedness), 233
unchurched, 4–6, 236
understanding of God. See evolving understanding of God
unity quest, 232–233
violence: in Abrahamic religions, 207–208; associating with image of Jesus, 120, 124–126; Bible associated with, 70; of imperial Christianity, 12; as modern crisis, 235–236, 253, 255; toward the “other,” 213. See also God and violence
war, 106–107, 134
Warren, Ebenezer Willis, 71
water imagery, 129, 134
Wesleyans, 227–228
About the Author
BRIAN D. MCLAREN is an author, speaker, pastor, and networker among innovative Christian leaders, thinkers, and activists. His groundbreaking books include A New Kind of Christian, A Generous Orthodoxy, The Secret Message of Jesus, and Everything Must Change. Named by Time magazine as one of America’s top twenty-five evangelicals, McLaren has appeared on Nightline and Larry King Live, and has been covered by The Washington Post and the New York Times. Visit the author online at www.brianmclaren.net.
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