The Sacredness of Questioning Everyth..., David Dark
The Sacredness of Questioning Everyth..., David Dark
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The Sacredness of Questioning Everything
Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

Author: David Dark

Narrator: John Patrick Walsh

Unabridged: 7 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 05/11/2009


Synopsis

Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned? The freedom to question is an indispensable and sacred practice that is absolutely vital to the health of our communities.According to author David Dark, when religion won’t tolerate questions, objections, or differences of opinion, and when it only brings to the table threats of excommunication, violence, and hellfire, it obstructs our ability to think, empathize, and live lives of authenticity and genuine engagement.The God of the Bible not only encourages questions; the God of the Bible demands them. If that were not so, we wouldn’t live in a world of such rich, God-given complexity in which wide-eyed wonder is part and parcel of the human condition. The possibility of redemption and revolution depends on the questions we ask of God, governments, media, and everyday economies. It is by way of the questions that we resist the conformity that deadens and come alive to visions that redeem.

About David Dark

David Dark is the critically acclaimed author of Everyday Apocalypse and The Gospel According to America and is an educator who is currently pursuing his PhD in Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. He has had articles published in Paste, Oxford American, Books and Culture, Christian Century, among others. A frequent speaker, Dark has also appeared on C-SPAN’s Book-TV and in an award-winning documentary, Marketing the Message. He lives with his singer-songwriter wife, Sarah Masen, and their three children in Nashville.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ryan on August 03, 2014

I really enjoyed this book and almost gave it 4 stars. This book was really fun to read and Dark does a phenomenal job weaving pop culture and classic literature together to make rhetorically forceful points. It was like reading a Gregory Thornbury sermon or lecture (not coincidentally, they are fri......more

Goodreads review by Austin on June 19, 2016

David Dark is my (much older and wiser) doppelgänger. This book was such a pleasure, nay - a real joy, to read. It wasn't just the endless array of literary and cultural allusions, it wasn't just the piercing theological musings, it wasn't just the tone of jest, sorrow, and love; it was that this bo......more

Goodreads review by Joel on April 09, 2016

Dark is an exceptional writer, and I would love to be a student in his high school English class. He effortlessly weaves popular culture references within and throughout poetry and deep theology, all in an effort to broaden your paradigm. This is not easy to digest, but it is a beautiful and impacti......more

Goodreads review by Jim on September 14, 2009

if you are going to read this book, be prepared to be challenged on multiple levels. the book is not really a difficult read, but because of how deep it goes, it does require some focus in order for you to get the full impact of everything that David is saying, so be sure that you are not distracted......more

Goodreads review by Spencer on September 12, 2016

A book that would be useful to own, read, re-read, re-read, and so on. There is just so much packed in to the book that my bookmark is full of page numbers, footnote numbers, and other notes. Makes you think about how you are approaching life. To quote the last line in the book, "It is by questions......more