Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith - Benjamin L. Corey
Category: Spiritual & Religious
Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
Tags: Spiritual & Religious
The popular Patheos blogger and a prominent figure within the Emerging Church Movement and Progressive Christianity explains how the American Christianity we are currently taught is actually a fear-saturated distortion of biblical faith., Benjamin L. Corey thought he was suffering a crisis of faith, but it turned out to be a spiritual awakening., Corey became aware that the constant fear of hell and judgment that defined his Christian faith was out of sync with the idea that God acts from love and promises to deliver us from fear. In the wake of this realization came newfound insights - from reading the Bible to reexamining American life and the churchs role in the wider world. Corey learned that what he had been taught was a distorted version of Christianity that was not only untrue but caused real spiritual harm., He also discovered that he wasnt alone. Many Christians are yearning to distinguish between the Christianity that has become a rigid American civil religion and the authent
