John Van Hagen, Rescuing Religion

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Sun, 01/10/2016 - 12:00am
How scientific criticism of scriptural texts can enhance spirituality
John Van Hagen is a licensed psychologist with 30 years experience in a variety of clinical, training, and teaching positions.   In his book  Rescuing Religion: How Faith Can Survive Its Encounter With Sciencehe offers a way to retain a connection to biblical stories even if the characters never existed and the events never happened.  We can go behind the texts to discover the struggles the authors of these texts faced.  We find they connect with our own.

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