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The authenticity of faith : the varieties and illusions of religious experience / Richard Beck.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Abilene, Tex. : Abilene Christian University Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0891127941
  • 9780891127949
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 248.2 23
LOC classification:
  • BV4597.57 .B43 2012
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Prelude: a new kind of apologetics -- Masters of suspicion -- The future of an illusion -- The existential turn -- Terror management -- The two families of God -- Sick souls, winter Christians, and saints of darkness -- Defensive and existential believers -- Worldview defense revisited -- Feeling queasy about the incarnation -- The Thomas Kinkade effect -- The God who cracked -- Conclusion: the authenticity of faith.

Includes bibliographical references.

Prelude: a new kind of apologetics -- Masters of suspicion -- The future of an illusion -- The existential turn -- Terror management -- The two families of God -- Sick souls, winter Christians, and saints of darkness -- Defensive and existential believers -- Worldview defense revisited -- Feeling queasy about the incarnation -- The Thomas Kinkade effect -- The God who cracked -- Conclusion: the authenticity of faith.

Print version record.