Rob Bell explains why common concepts of God fail to speak to today’s world

March 11, 2013

Watch the publisher’s short preview trailer about Rob Bell’s new book
Tomorrow, March 12, the latest book by Rob Bell (author of the controversial Love Wins) will go on sale. It’s called What We Talk About When We Talk About God. This 3-minute video, produced by HarperOne, summarizes the main point of the book and why Bell compares many common concepts of God to an Oldsmobile. According to his website, the book “shows how traditional ideas have grown stale and dysfunctional and how to return vitality and vibrancy to lives of faith today.”

Letha Dawson Scanzoni is an independent scholar, writer, and editor, and is the author or coauthor of nine books. In 1978, she and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott wrote Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?, one of the earliest books urging evangelical Christians to rethink their views on homosexuality (updated edition, 1994, HarperOne). More recently, Letha coauthored (with social psychologist David G. Myers) What God Has Joined Together: The Christian Case for Gay Marriage (HarperOne, 2005 and 2006). Another of Letha’s most well-known books is All We’re Meant to Be: Biblical Feminism for Today, coauthored with Nancy A. Hardesty (Word Books, 1974; revised edition, Abingdon, 1986; updated and expanded edition, Eerdmans, 1992). Letha served as editor of Christian Feminism Today in both its former print edition (EEWC Update) and its website for 19 years until her retirement in December 2013.

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