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Third Draft: May 2, 2005
Client: Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint
Book: The Last Word and The Word After That
Author: Brian D. McLaren
Subject Line: Excerpt: Brian McLaren / Emergent Church
I have permission from Jossey-Bass to distribute an excerpt
from Brian McLaren's new book, "The Last Word and The Word
After That." A leader in the emergent church movement,
McLaren was interviewed by Larry King on February 1, 2005,
after Time Magazine named him one of the 25 most
influential evangelicals in America.
"The Last Word" is the third and final book in McLaren's
"New Kind of Christian" trilogy. It combines deceptively
entertaining fiction with scholarly research and Socratic
dialogue. In the excerpt I am distributing, McLaren says,
"I am more interested in generating conversation than
argument."
Indeed, the book is presented as a series of conversations
about hell. According to one character, "Millions of
people, young and old, have given up on Christianity
because our way of talking about hell sounds absolutely
wacky. 'God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your
life,' we say, 'and he'll fry your butt in hell forever
unless you do or believe the right thing'... No wonder
Christianity -- or that version of it -- is a dying
religion in so many places in the world."
To get the excerpt, send mailto:excerpts@authorviews.com
with the subject line "Send McLaren" and I will reply with
the text -- and *only* the text -- NO file attachments or
opt-in mailing list jive. If you'd like to join the
conversation, I invite you to participate in Brian
McLaren's Blog Tour beginning May 9 at these locations:
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