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Before You Lose Your Faith

Deconstructing Doubt in the Church

Publication

E-book / audio: ePub, Mobi, Audiobook
Notes: Fifteen essays by Gospel Coalition writers on the phenomenon its editor calls deconstruction, arranged so that the first part questions the idea itself, the second takes the issues that most often precipitate it one at a time, and the third argues for what a rebuilt faith looks like. Mesa's introduction dates the book to the wave of public deconversions around 2020. The one title in this collection published by The Gospel Coalition under its own imprint rather than through Crossway.
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Introduction (Ivan Mesa)
Part One: Deconstruct Deconstruction
- 1. Doubt Your Way Back to Truth (Trevin Wax)
- 2. 'Progressive' Christianity Was Even Shallower Than the Evangelical Faith I Left (Ian Harber)
- 3. Deconversion Is Not as Countercultural as You Think (Brett McCracken)
- 4. Don't Deconstruct--Disenculturate Instead (Hunter Beaumont)
Part Two: Deconstruct the Issues
- 5. Sex: Telling a Better Story (Rachel Gilson)
- 6. Race: Is Christianity a White Man's Religion? (Claude Atcho)
- 7. Politics: Just Servant, Tyrannical Master (Samuel James)
- 8. Internet: Deconstructing Faith Online (Jay Y. Kim)
- 9. Social Justice: Breakup or Breakthrough? (Thaddeus Williams)
- 10. Science: Why Scientism Can't Explain Morality or Reality (Keith Plummer)
- 11. Anti-Intellectualism: We Must Ask Hard Questions (Karen Swallow Prior)
- 12. Hell: Skeleton in God's Closet? (Joshua Ryan Butler)
Part Three: Reconstruct Faith
- 13. Embrace True Belonging in the Church (Jeremy Linneman)
- 14. Sometimes People Don't Believe (Jared Wilson)
- 15. Take a Hard Look at Jesus (Derek Rishmawy)