brothagary
Dec 30, 2012
Hi brothagary,
tektonics.org seems to have some wounderful information on other topics.
I personaly have not read 'Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up' I have how ever his books 'Will the theologians please set down' which is an excelant book that I have found to be very accurate according to much of my own personal studies of the topic. I feel his best book however is 'The Kingdom that turned the world up side down'.
I have another book by Him that I have skimmed through but not read and that is 'In God We Don't Trust'
As a devout biblicist I find Bercots books inspiring not because my faith is in what the ante-nicene fathers taught but because of much of what he reveales that they taught, I knew in back of my mind already that it was so, I have just been indoctrinated otherwise.
Bercots message seems to be difficult for many to understand all they can see is either you teach sola fida or else you are teaching salvation by works but the essence of what Bercot is trying to get across is that true Christianity is an obedient love-faith relationship with Jesus Christ.
quote from Scroll Publishing
"When Christianity was young, the focus was on Jesus Christ and His kingdom - not theology. In the beginning, Christians understood that the essence of Christianity was an obedient love-faith relationship with Jesus Christ. This was not just any relationship, but a relationship that produced genuine kingdom fruit.
But then something happened: Theologians took over the church. Once they did, the emphasis soon changed from godly fruit to "orthodox" theology. Christianity became Doctrianity. In this provocative work, Bercot argues that it's time to let Jesus speak through the pages of the Gospels without filtering His teachings through denials and mental gymnastics of the theologians, their books, and their commentaries.
It's time for the children of the kingdom to stand up for Jesus and the gospel that He preached - and it's time for the theologians to sit down"
http://www.scrollpublishing.com/store/more-theologians.html
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