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Christian Middle Way, The The case against Christian belief but for Christian faith Robert M. Ellis The Middle Way is the practical principle of avoiding both positive and negative absolutes, so as to develop provisional beliefs accessible to experience. Although inspired initially by the Buddha’s Middle Way, in Middle Way Philosophy Robert M. Ellis has developed it as a critical universalism: a way of separating the helpful from the unhelpful elements of any tradition. In this book, the Middle Way is applied to the Christian tradition in order to argue for a meaningful and positive interpretation of it, without the absolute beliefs that many assume to be essential to Christianity. Faith as an embodied, provisional confidence is distinguished from dogmatic belief. Recent developments in embodied meaning, brain lateralization from neuroscience, Jungian archetypes and the Jungian model of psychological integration are drawn on to support an account of how Christian faith is not only possible without ‘belief’ in God or Christ, but indeed puts us in a better position to access inspiration, moral purpose, responsibility and the basis of peace. Author Bio Robert M. Ellis is a graduate in Theology and Oriental Studies from Cambridge University. He holds a PhD in Philosophy and is the founder of the Middle Way Society. Online: Facebook, Author Website, Blog Endorsements ...a densely argued book, needing, and deserving, time to digest; and to work out, with the author’s help, the implications of approaching religion in general and Christianity in particular, in terms of the Middle Way. Edward Walker, author of Treasure Beneath the Hearth Promotional Plans Author website. Middle Way blog and social media. Talks and events. USP It makes use of the Middle Way: a concept that is not applied in any current treatments of Christianity. Competing Books Why Christianity must change or die (9780060675325) , by John Selby Spong HarperOne, 1998 Categories RELIGION (General)(REL067000) -> Christian Theology (General)(REL067000) RELIGION (General)(REL070000) -> Christianity (General)(REL070000) RELIGION (General)(REL001000) -> Agnosticism(REL001000)	Publication Date July 2018 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-78535-756-5 $29.95  |  £17.99 8.5x5.5 inches | 216x140 mm 328PP e-book ISBN: 978-1-78535-757-2 $14.99  |  £8.99 Library of Congress 2017942268
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