Americans want to know: What would Jesus do? What would Paul say today?
For almost two thousand years, Christians have asked two essential questions: What would Jesus do?” and What would Paul say?” Paul wrote more of the New Testament than anyone else did, and he dealt with the basic problems of his day: What should Christians do about marriage? What should the relationship be between Jews and Christians? What is the Christian responsibility to the state? What about ethnic differences? What about male and female relationships? But Paul did not answer the specific questions many Americans are now asking about marriage, interfaith relationships, illegal immigrants, and the authority of government.
Now, one respected Christian writer has put suggested answers in the form of new letters from Paul to Americans. Following the pattern of Paul’s letters to Rome, Corinth, and Galatia, a priest of the Episcopal Church has written letters in Paul’s name to Washington, California, Texas, and other American cities and states. Whether encouraging, insightful, useful, or controversial, these letters are a serious attempt to make Paul directly relevant to our time and issues. This book is a call for American Christians to think more carefully about the relationship between faith and society, and to seek purposeful, biblical living.
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Christopher Webber has hit on a faithful and creative way to bring Paul's theological, ethical, and spiritual critique right to the heart of American life. As does the Bible itself, so Webber's Dear Friends relates our ultimate values to the questions and dilemmas we face every day. I cannot think of a better way for both beginning and lifelong Christians to engage and renew their faith. Eminently readable, accessible, and yet highly sophisticated, these letters will give both individual readers and congregational groups real insight into the life of faith in 21st-century America.” The Very Reverend Gary R. Hall, Dean, Washington National Cathedral
The idea is inspired. . . . Both imaginative and faithful . . . undoubtedly a brilliant book.” Ian S. Markham, Dean and President, Virginia Theological Seminary
A devoted and bold effort to apply Paul's thought about the world as he knew it to the world we live in now.” Edward F. Duffy, Presbyterian Pastor and Hartford Seminary Professor
Compellingly captures Paul's voice and expression in this series of new letters on contemporary themes.” Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Dean of Faculty, Claremont School of Theology
Webber’s imaginative and faithful retelling . . . is a wonderful example of the translatability of the Good News.” Ian T. Douglas, Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
Christopher L. Webber is an Episcopal priest with degrees in theology and an honorary doctorate. He has always used his scholarship to make teachings of the past accessible to ordinary Christians today. Among his thirty-plus books is his most recent biography of James W. C. Pennington, one of the leading African American voices in the pre–Civil War abolitionist movement. Webber lives in San Francisco, California.
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