Open Christianity: Home by another Road

By Jim Burklo

Book Overview

"Open Christianity" is an invitation to keep the faith but drop the dogma. Many Christian-heritage seekers struggle with conflicted yearning. They value much that the tradition offers. But the church... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878282069
• ISBN13: 9781878282064
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: St Johann Pr
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

The simple truth

The ability to communicate the message of Christianity in simple and relavent ways is illusive , but not to Jim Burklo. I relished his explanations of the essential truths of the Christian faith . This is must reading for the faithful and for the unfaithful because it is clear and honest and deeply moving. Leda Sanford California

Fresh Theology

Burklo's writing is clear; his perspective is easy to understand. "Open Christianity" is a non-threatening invitation to see the Christian faith in light of 21stC world. Burklo's theology makes sense. His personal experiences at the start of each chapter become like modern day parables interpreted by the content of the chapter. This is a helpful book not only for inquirers, but for seasoned theologians.

Courageous and enlightening!

This book is a clear account of an honest, faithful, soul searching journey into the heart of Christian faith. Jim Burklo shares the questions, concerns, and struggles that many of us face when we are authentically challenging our beliefs and striving to broaden our faith walk. Jim encourages readers to be willing to supercede mere reason rather than abandoning it, and gives the reader a solid strarting point for a transformative spiritual journey. Jim's book opens the way for both traditional Christian disciples and seekers from a variety of spiritual backgrounds to explore the Christ path with open minds and open hearts.

revealing

Rev. Burklo's book is revealing not only for Christians but for people who belongs to other religious traditions, showing deep spiritual insights of Christianism, and demonstrating how Chirstianism substantially overlaps with other faiths. Although the book deals with old discussions of spiritual Christianism, it puts them together in a very clear, elucidating and transparent fashion accesible for all readers. In my opinion, the final quality of the chapters is uneven, but most of them are very solid and the book as a whole invites for more than one reading. A fascinating and challeging chapter is "the theology of enough", which is more than theology, but ethics, ecology and spirituality together.

Liberating!

This book takes a sensitive subject, namely the reality of a bible that was not meant to be taken literally for all time, and makes a workable discussion for both the fundamentalist and the skeptic. For many, there has been a crippling point in their spiritual journey, when, the "rules" of the Old Testament are juxtaposed with the plan laid out by Jesus in the New Testament. Rev. Burklo punctuates ideas and theories with life on the street examples that are heart opening and humbling.