2020 Word Guild Awards Shortlist -- Apologetics/Evangelism 2020 Word Guild Award -- Best Book Cover Award Christianity Today\'s 2020 Book of the Year Award of Merit - The Beautiful Orthodoxy What if certainty isn\'t the goal? In a World filled with ambiguity, many of us long for a belief system that provides straightforward answers to complex questions and clarity in the face of confusion.
With personal stories and reflection on Scripture, literature, and culture, Michel takes us deeper into mystery and into worship of the One who is Mystery and Love..
As Michel writes, As soon as we think we have God figured out, we will have ceased to worship him as he is.
Each of these themes give us certainty about God while also leading us into greater curiosity about his nature and activity in the world.
And lament, with its clear-eyed appraisal of suffering alongside its commitment to finding audience with God, is a paradoxical practice of faith.
In the paradox of grace, we receive life eternal by actively participating in death.
In the kingdom, God often hides in plain sight and announces his triumph on the back of a donkey.
The incarnation--the paradox of God made human--teaches us to look for God in the and of body and spirit, heaven and earth.
Jesus invites us to abandon the polarities of either and or in order to embrace the difficult, wondrous dissonance of and .
While there are certainties in Christian faith, at the heart of the Christian story is also paradox.
With signature candor and depth, Jen Pollock Michel helps readers imagine a Christian faith open to mystery.
We want faith to act like an orderly set of truth-claims designed to solve the problems and pain that life throws at us. 2020 Word Guild Awards Shortlist -- Apologetics/Evangelism 2020 Word Guild Award -- Best Book Cover Award Christianity Today\'s 2020 Book of the Year Award of Merit - The Beautiful Orthodoxy What if certainty isn\'t the goal? In a World filled with ambiguity, many of us long for a belief system that provides straightforward answers to complex questions and clarity in the face of confusion
