No Fixed Address: regarded as one of the best surveys of progressive issues on the market from ProgressiveChristianity.org in Gig Harbor, Washington, United States "In No Fixed Address, Bodycomb is unafraid to ask and seek answers to today's most challenging theological questions." for Monday, 5 September 2016
No Fixed Address: Faith as JourneyJohn Bodycomb
Ordained since 1956, with nothing to prove or to fear, Bodycomb answers questions many have been afraid to ask. Acknowledging that everyone is the product of a story, he sets his idea of faith as journey firmly within his own experience, dealing with who or what we mean by G-O-D, who Jesus is, and religious pluralism. Written in the avuncular style that marks his preaching and teaching, this book will appeal to both scholar and lay reader.
John Bodycomb shares his journey of faith – as a theological and spiritual wanderer – from his early conversion to latter day spiritual stirrer, trying to get people to face the honest questions that living in today’s world requires.
The book, which lends itself to small group work with included discussion questions, is rapidly being taken up for that purpose.
ReviewsTo find a book whose contents reflect both erudition and transparent honesty is not a common experience. Such a book is John Bodycomb'sNo Fixed Address: Faith as Journey. It had a long gestation period as suggested by the works consulted. These are many and varied and, by the way in which they are presented, allow the reader to participate in the author's own journey. The honesty with which some contentious issues are dealt with will doubtless upset some readers. That, however, is a strength and certainly not a weakness for such an approach is long overdue. My appeal to readers is to suspend judgement and to think along with the author, to accompany him in what may become for them, as it was for me, an exhilarating experience, a faith journey. ~Rev. Professor Emeritus Robert Anderson, AM
John is one of the Australian theological giants in the liberal protestant stream and provides a respectful and respectable counterfoil to the atheists who have been given so much attention lately. Both deserve to be heard. I read it in one sitting, not that it is light and trivial, but it was that engaging.
~Professor Emeritus Gary Bouma, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
About the Author
John Bodycomb has been parish minister in Australia, New Zealand and the US; Christian educator, university chaplain and dean of a theological school, where he taught sociology and preaching. He has published or contributed to twelve books, and been a regular on religious radio. Dr. Bodycomb is an authority on church growth and decline. Ordained Congregational, he is today a retired Uniting Church minister.
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