From the Book - First edition.
Part I. Setting the stage
Why modern men and women can no longer be believers
Part II. Stating the problem
How the first Reformation began
Differentiating the experience from the explanation
The challenge of the Copernican revolution
The impact on theism from Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin
Dealing with the insights of Freud
The quest for God: a new form
Our definition of God: evolving, never fixed
Part IV. Thesis 2: Jesus the Christ
Escaping the idolatry of the Incarnation
The collapse of the salvation story
Part V. Thesis 3: Original sin
Part VI. Thesis 4: The virgin birth
The story of the virgin birth
The actual details behind Jesus' birth
Part VII. Thesis 5: Miracles
When miracles entered the Bible
The miracles in the Moses/Joshua story
Part VIII. Thesis 6: Atonement theology
Renouncing "Jesus dies for my sins"
Part IX. Thesis 7: Easter
Paul's list of Resurrection witnesses
The Gospels' understanding of Easter
Part X. Thesis 8: The Ascension
Part XI. Thesis 9: Ethics
Finding the basis for ethics
How the Ten Commandments have changed through history
Meet Moses' rather-in-law
The questionable relevance of the Ten Commandments today
Part XII. Thesis 10: Prayer
Prayer: an act of being or of doing?
Driving power toward a new understanding
Part XIII. Thesis 11: Life after death
A new perspective on eternity
Part XIV. Thesis 12: Universalism
The marks of tomorrow's Christianity
My mantra: This I do believe.
