The New Tolerance: How a Cultural Movement Threatens to Destroy You, Your Faith, and Your Children.

by Bob Hostetler and Josh McDowell

Book Overview

This book will help readers discern truth from error and to withstand the pressure-even persecution-to conform to a relativistic culture. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842370889
• ISBN13: 9780842370882
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A message we need to hear!

This is a “Must Read” for today’s Christian. It helps us put words to why there is a growing hatred towards Christians today and helps us as Christians see what we are doing wrong, and how to better show Christ’s love without denying the Truth.

Excellent!

Excellent analysis on the spin the cultural elite have placed on the word tolerance. Absolutely essential for those with traditional beliefs particularly in understanding how the new tolerance is nothing short of an attack on all traditional belief systems.

McDowell's clear view

In a world full of obfuscation and political posturing, Josh McDowell is a voice of clear reason. It has been a belief of political elitists for years that by using words like "tolerance" people would embrace, and even promote, policies that most would disdain were they more accurately described - and, sadly, they have been correct. McDowell pierces these lies with clear logic and precise examples. I fear he will be largely "preaching to the choir", as the point of the book is apparent from the beginning. Most of the book is useful primarily for the marshalling of arguments that a reader might use afterwards. Our public discourse would be greatly improved, and more rational, if this book becomes widely read.

Great book for teaching and living as God wants us too.

Most Christians acknowledge that the world does not tolerate Christians. This book is an excellent tool that can be used for teaching your family to live as God has commanded, even when the world around us denies us the right to live as Christians. The "New Tolerance" is not true tolerance. It is acceptance and appreciation for whatever you want to believe, think and do. One cannot be a Christian and believe in the "new Tolerance" movement. One must uphold the truths written in the Bible and live as such. This book offers hope of a brighter future, assistance in how to live in a world that does everything BUT tolerate Christians and guidance on how to teach your children to survive in this world.

"New Tolerance" tolerates everything BUT Christianity

This book is a "must read" for anyone who wants to understand the reasons underlying our nation's cultural collapse. It also explains why our society tolerates everything EXCEPT Christianity.Basically, McDowell explains how today's definition of "tolerance" differs radically from the traditional dictionary definition. He discusses how and why the definition of tolerance has changed, how the new tolerance manifests itself in our society, and concludes by giving concrete ideas for Christian witness in the midst of today's culture.The traditional definition of tolerance means to "endure" or put up with something, such as a person's behavior, attitudes or beliefs, without necessarily agreeing with them. In other words, love the sinner, hate the sin. However, today's definition of tolerance is more like "love the sinner, love the sin." Today's definition of tolerance states that a person's behavior, beliefs and attitudes are inseparable from who he or she is. Therefore, any attack on behaviors, beliefs or attitudes is seen as a personal attack.The evolution of tolerance is the result of the evolution of other aspects of human existence, including the concept of truth, over three distinct eras. During the first era, ethical theism, people believed that all truth was revealed by God. In the second era, modernism, the emphasis shifted from God to mankind, and the concept of truth changed from being something that is revealed by God to being something that is discernable by man. Finally, in the third and present era, post-modernism, truth has changed from being something that is collectively true for human beings to something that is determined by each individual person, based on that person's culture, which in turn consists of behaviors, attitudes and beliefs. Because each person's idea of truth is based on their unique culture, and because all people are created equally, the new tolerance decrees that no one person can claim to possess a superior truth, or a truth that is "more true" than other people's truths. Rather, all truth claims are equally valid. The idea of equal truth claims has profound implications for those of us who believe in Jesus Christ and absolute standards of right and wrong. These implications include the death of truth, the disappearance of virtue, the demise of justice, the loss of conviction, the privatization of faith, the tyranny of the individual, the disintegration of human rights. the dominance of feeling, the exaltation of nature, and the descent into extremes. Furthermore, it especially targets Christians because Christians believe that their truth claim -- Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior -- is in fact superior to any other truth claims. Because Christianity claims to have "The Way, the Truth and the Life" and does not accept other truth claims as equally valid or actively condone or participate in them, it is therefore "intolerant." And because Christianity is intolerant, it is ther

Outstanding Christian perspective of today's society.

This is a tremendous book describing our society and antichristian culture in the U.S. and the world today. It provides biblical methods for true Christians to cope with our society and be true to our God. A GREAT BOOK THAT EVERY CHRISTIAN SHOULD READ!!!