Faith in the Shadows, Austin Fischer
Faith in the Shadows, Austin Fischer
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Faith in the Shadows
Finding Christ in the Midst of Doubt

Author: Austin Fischer

Narrator: Austin Fischer

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/11/2018


Synopsis

"People don't abandon faith because they have doubts. People abandon faith because they think they're not allowed to have doubts." Too often, our honest questions about faith are met with cold confidence and easy answers. But false certitude doesn't result in strong faith?it results in disillusionment, or worse, in a dogmatic, overweening faith unable to see itself or its object clearly. Even as a pastor, Austin Fischer has experienced the shadows of doubt and disillusionment. In Faith in the Shadows, he leans into perennial questions about Christianity with raw and fearless integrity. He addresses contemporary science, the problem of evil, hell, God's silence, and other issues, offering not only fresh treatments of these questions but also a fresh paradigm for thinking about doubt itself. Doubt, Fischer contends, is no reason to leave the faith. Instead, it's an invitation to a more honest faith?a faith that's not in control, but that trusts more fully in its Lord.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob on May 06, 2019

Summary: Explores how one may live a life of faith in Christ in the midst of doubts and questions. Austin Fischer was a pastor who struggled with doubts and feared they might lead him to abandon his faith. Then he came to this pivotal realization: "People don't abandon faith because they have doubts.......more

Goodreads review by Michael on January 22, 2019

"Hurricanes come, and if you praise is the only language you can't speak, you will often find yourself speechless and imploding, We must learn the language of lament so we can give voice to our faith when praise just won't do. We must speak to God even when we don't have anything nice to say. We mus......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on September 08, 2018

Faith in the Shadows reaches out to answer many questions about Christianity. So often people do not get their answers to their questions. The author says it is good to have questions. He addresses the problem of evil, hell, science and how God can fit with the questions in these areas. He encourage......more

Goodreads review by Joel on December 13, 2018

Beautiful, moving, and wonderful. One of my favorites this year, easily. Fischer, above all else, is honest, and he gives others permission to be similarly honest about things that don't make sense with the rigid Christian world-view many of us have inherited. A few chapters nearly brought me to tear......more