John Killinger – författare

John Killinger, author of Ten Things I Learned Wrong from a Conservative Church , offers this insightful, very honest, and even sometimes humorous look at the most important things all seminarians need to know--and aren't learning in seminary.

Is there an afterlife? If so, how can I be saved? For traditional Christians, the fate of the soul after death is the most pressing question of life. But many Christians have never learned the way that concepts of the afterlife evolved throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, New Testament, and church history. In this easy to read new volume, John Killinger gives us a sense of changing and more diverse views on salvation in Christianity, while respecting the importance of the question for many today.

Why are so many people drifting away from today's churches? John Killinger suggests that part of the problem is that they have personally outpaced the thinking and understanding of the church so that they no longer find it adequate as a social structure for the celebration of their faith. In their attempts to find Jesus and his teachings relevant within the new culture, they strike out on their own or adhere to para-Christian organizations that retain an allegiance to Jesus without the baggage of the traditional institution. Killinger, a former big-steeple minister and theologian, describes how he himself has been forced essentially to abandon the church in order to remain faithful to the beliefs and ideals that first drew him into it.