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Out of the Embers : Faith after the Great Deconstruction by Bradley Jersak (2022, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherWhitaker House

ISBN-101641238887

ISBN-139781641238885

eBay Product ID (ePID)7057266668

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Book TitleOut of the Embers : Faith after the Great Deconstruction

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicChristian Theology / General, Christian Life / Spiritual Growth, Faith

GenreReligion

AuthorBradley Jersak

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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LCCN2022-031924

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsWhen we experience the inevitable widening of our understanding of and identity in God, of the Scriptures, and of our way of being in God's beloved, broken world, sometimes it feels more like an exploding grenade than an expansive invitation. Yet we need love's widening, especially when we religious folks think we don't. (Note who disliked Jesus and his message enough to make sure he died instead of their old beliefs.) We also need wise, pastoral, knowledgeable, hope-oriented guides who can help clear the smoke, remove the rubble, bind the wounds, and redirect our gaze on Jesus, who hides our lives with his own in God amid the shakeup. With his insights and the historical companions he has chosen to help us, Bradley Jersak--who also brings experience in compassionate triage--is that transparent, trustworthy guide who can help us examine the unexamined "knowledge" to which we cling so that it might be released and surpassed by God's love. --Dr. Cherith Fee Nordling Faculty, Masters in Leadership, Theology and Society, Regent College, Vancouver, BC, In a day when the answer to personal doubts and societal ills seems to be "Burn it all down," Bradley Jersak calls to us from the ashes of ruin with the attentiveness and compassion of the Good Samaritan tending to and providing for a stranger in need. Out of the Embers reassures us that deconstruction is not merely for the purpose of destruction, but, unlike many Christian texts of old, it does not attempt to fill in all the blanks or flood us with certitude. In this seminal work, Brad comes to us as a fellow wayfarer, a sojourner who is questioning and seeking but anchored. And from that deeply rooted place, which includes the voices of sages from eras past, he has written Out of the Embers as a companion for his fellow seekers and as a guide for the questioners. He calls us once again to the One who loves, the One who leads, the One who makes all things new. What will we be after the coal of the Refiner's fire has touched our lips? Out of the Embers leaves us hopeful. -- Felicia Murrell Author, Truth Encounters, According to Bradley Jersak, " The Great Deconstruction is not just a two-year lockdown or four-year election cycle." He sees it as "a great historic tradition." However, the author insists we are bereft of neither reliable guides nor real agency. From Moses to Jesus to modern prophets like Simone Weil, Out of the Embers mercifully recollects for us the sages and seers who have "charted the way...[and] left us memos of their work." Out of the Embers is a most wise, kind, and timely gift for those of us whose very faith has been traumatized by the tumult of our age. --Steve Bell Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter-musician, Revelation is Deconstruction, not the revelation of that which lacks but that which is True. Like the burning bush, the deadwood is being destroyed, allowing for the emergence of that which has always been present but hidden, now visible and attractive by its nature. This is the journey that Brad Jersak escorts us through, where the intent of love is never wanton havoc but the tender Doula's work, the Holy Spirit overseeing the birthing of true life. After all, only the ashes make it through the flames, and from the ashes, beauty. -- Wm. Paul Young Author, The Shack and Lies We Believe About God, Finally, someone has written what I think will be the textbook on the deconstruction of belief--and it's Brad Jersak. I appreciate Jersak's thorough and caring contribution to this important discussion and urgent reality. --David Hayward aka "NakedPastor" Author, Questions Are the Answer and Til Doubt Do Us Part, If there is a way forward into faith and mystery, then there have been many who have passed through tumultuous cultural moments like our own and have lived to tell the tale. Linking arms with Voltaire, Weil, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, and John of the Cross, Brad Jersak opens a way to faith after having passed through the purifying fires of modernity. There can indeed be a second naivete, a return to childlike wonder after disillusionment. Deconstruction does not have to be an end; it can be a gracious iconoclasm that returns us to God, ourselves, and even God's scandalous GPS on earth: the church. --Dr. Julie Canlis Author, A Theology of the Ordinary, This is a wise and creative book. And despite the fact that Brad Jersak's wisdom was clearly hard-won, he has not been hardened by the gaining of it. Tender and personal, he is nonetheless also often fierce, never shying away into shibboleths or truisms or abstractions. His is a faith of fever and tears, a faith in a God with wounds. So, he writes with a consummate "touch" about the pains of believing and doubting, finding and losing the way. Just so, he fulfills his calling and helps us to answer our own callings, renewing our confidence in old wisdom, proven true over time, and reminding us that the Spirit is creating a fresh wisdom in and for us here and now--a wisdom, believe it or not, formed in our wrestlings with God. --Dr. Chris Green Professor of Public Theology, Southeastern University, Lakeland, FL Director, St. Anthony Institute for Theology, Philosophy, & Liturgics

Dewey Decimal248.4

SynopsisDeconstruction: Trendy brand name for falling away from belief in God? Or a process essential to authentic faith? Liberation or trauma? Prison break or exile? It's complicated. Just like you. Christian history records a Great Reformation and a Great Awakening. But today's "Great Deconstruction" will surely leave an equally profound impact. In Out of the Embers, Bradley Jersak explores the necessity, perils, and possibilities of the Great Deconstruction--how it has the potential to either sabotage our communion with God or infuse it with the breath of life, the light and life of Christ himself. In this collection of vulnerable memoirs, philosophical memos, and candid provocations, Jersak resists both the hand-wringing urge to corral stray sheep and the exultant desire to play the happy-clappy Ex -vangelical cheerleader. He employs the wisdom and expertise of the great deconstructionists--Christianity's ancient influences (Moses, Plato, Paul, and the Patristics), "beloved frenemies" (from Voltaire to Nietzsche), and the masters of deconstruction (Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, and Weil)--to double down and deconstruct deconstruction itself. Where is faith after deconstruction? The author's heart is to engage and empathize with the bereft and disoriented, stoking the brittle ashes for live embers. In this quest for the resilient gospel of the martyrs, the marginal, and those outside the threshold...inexplicably, in this liminal space, life stirs. A Light shines through the ashes. We find, often for the first time, that living connection Jersak calls "presence in communion." There is a sea change occurring across the Western church and civilization. Whether we're watching a radical course correction or a complete collapse remains to be seen, and how it pans out will likely depend on how we see what's happening, who we are becoming , how we live in response--and, most important, where we find Christ situated in this storm.

LC Classification NumberBV4501.3.J478 2022