Full name: Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith

Author: Charles Templeton Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Religion, Atheism, Christianity, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780771085086 0771085087

For more than twenty years, Charles Templeton was a major figure in the church in Canada and the United States. During the 1950s, he and Billy Graham were the two most successful exponents of mass evangelism in North America. Templeton spoke nightly to stadium crowds of up to thirty thousand people.   However, increasing doubts about the validity of the Old Testament and the teachings of the Christian church finally brought about a crisis in his faith and in 1957 he resigned from the ministry.   In Farewell to God, Templeton speaks out about his reasons for the abandonment of his faith. In straightforward language, Templeton deals with such subjects as the Creation fable, racial prejudice in the Bible, the identity of Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus' alienation from his family, the second-class status of women in the church, the mystery of evil, the illusion that prayer works, why there is suffering and death, and the loss of faith in God.   He concludes with a positive personal statement: "I Believe." From the eBook edition. Similar books: Jesus, Interrupted by Bart D. Ehrman There Is a God by Antony Flew Who Wrote the New Testament? by Burton L. Mack The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller Heaven by Randy Alcorn Cold-Case Christianity by J. Warner Wallace Believing God by Beth Moore The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster The Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer Desiring God by John Piper Walking with God through Pain and Suffering by Timothy Keller The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day by Mark Batterson The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer A Praying Life by Paul E. Miller Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God by J. I. Packer The Cross of Christ by John R. W. Stott