The Future of the Christian Tradition

Robert J. Miller, editor

Robert J. Miller, Introduction

Part I   An Authentic Contemporary Faith

Robert W. Funk, An Enlightened Faith for an Enlightened Age
John Shelby Spong, Beyond Theism but not beyond God
Joe Bessler-Northcutt, Facing Up to Hard Questions: Christian Faith for a New Age
Arthur J. Dewey, Ecclesial Tectonics: Non Est Extra
Stephen J. Patterson, Killing Jesus
Robert J. Miller, Literal Incarnation or Universal Love?
Roy W. Hoover, Tradition and Faith in a New Era
Richard Holloway, The Church Organist and the Jazz Pianist

Part II   Wisdom for the Global Age

Daryl D. Schmidt, VERITAS: The Truth of the Matter about Religion
Don Cupitt, Beginning All Over Again
Don Cupitt, On Behalf of John Robinson
John C. Kelly , Anti-Realism and Religious Belief
Darren J. N. Middleton, Relational Theology in the Second Axial Age: A Response
to Don Cupitt’s Religious Theory
Lloyd Geering, A Path of Faith to the Global Future

Part III   Religion, Science, and the Future of Life on Earth

Eugenie C. Scott, Evolution, Creationism, and the Myths of Nature
Anne Primavesi, The Age of Ecology

Part IV   The Moral Imperative: Sources and Sanctions

Robert M. Price, Can We Still Teach Biblical Moral Values?
Jack A. Hill, The Boy Scout and the Mafia Boss: Is There a Future for Christian Ethics in America?

Notes

Works Consulted