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When Brian McLaren started out offering an alternative vision of Christian trust and life in catalogs such as A New Kind of Christian and A Generous Orthodoxy, he ignited a firestorm of compliment and condemnation that continues to spread across the religious landscape. To some spiritual conservatives, McLaren is an unhealthy rebel without a doctrinally-correct cause. Some fundamentalist websites have even said he's in little league with the devil and have consigned him to flames. To others though, Brian is a brand new voice, a pleasant antidote to the staleness, superficiality, and negativity of the spiritual status quo. A wide selection of people from Evangelical, Catholic, and Mainline Protestant backgrounds declare that through his catalogs they have started to rediscover the trust they'd lost or declined. And around the world, many visitors say that he has helped them find-for the very first time in their lives-a trust which makes sense and wedding rings true. For many, he articulates the assurance of what is being called "emerging Christianity." In The Secret Communication of Jesus you'll find what's at the guts of Brian's critique of classic Christianity, and what's in the centre of his expanding vision. Along the way, you'll meet a Jesus who may be completely not used to you, a Jesus who is
- Not the crusading conqueror of spiritual broadcasting;
- Not the spiritual mascot of partisan religious beliefs;
- Not heaven's ticket-checker, whose words have been commandeered by the chapel to include and exclude, judge and stigmatize, pacify and domesticate.
