Toward a Post-Biblical Christian Future, Second Edition

""As Christian churches empty, this book comes to the rescue. It explains why people are leaving and how we can get them back. Taking us back the heart of Christianity, this is a vital book for our time."" --Diane Dreher, Professor Emerita, Santa Clara University ""This is not a book for those looking to preserve easy answers or cling to inherited certainty. It's for those who are ready to wrestle. Herrick takes readers on a candid journey through the tensions, contradictions, and cultural gaps within Scripture, not to tear faith down, but to ask what might come next. And that's where the book is at its most compelling--offering a vision of an interspiritual Christianity that seeks God beyond the limits of dogma, and beyond the boundaries we've too often drawn."" --Caleb J. Lines, Co-Executive Director, The Center for Progressive Christianity Praise for the first edition: ""The title of this book presents a most challenging task--describing a Christianity without the Bible. Impossible, you say! And yet Rick Herrick illustrates inconsistencies in the Bible that should make us realize the book is not infallible and that belief in what it says cannot be the essence of faith. The church must go beyond a literal reading of the Bible and find ways to focus on what Herrick calls love of the heart. It is a herculean task, but Herrick does not back down, offering a path for the church to head into the future."" --Carl Krieg, author of How the Rich Stole Jesus