{"product_id":"faith-without-fear-risky-choices-facing-contemporary-christians-paperback","title":"Faith Without Fear: Risky Choices Facing Contemporary Christians - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKeith Mascord\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFaith without Fear asks whether Christianity has the wherewithal to meet the increasingly acute intellectual and moral challenges currently facing it, and whether it can shed the reactive fear which now grips its more conservative forms. Major topics of the book include same-sex marriage, patriarchal push-back and sociology of conservatism. The book seeks to demonstrate the inadequacy and damaging impact of older ways of reading the Bible, and to plot what some will consider a risky way forward for 21st century Christians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeith Mascord is a Canadian-born Australian. He has been a teacher, a priest, an academic, a chaplain and is currently a parole officer. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he taught philosophy and pastoral theology at the Anglican seminary in Sydney, Moore Theological College, where he continued a journey out of fundamentalism described in his autobiographical A Restless Faith: leaving fundamentalism in a quest for God (2012). Keith is married to Judy. They have five sons and four grandchildren. He is interested in philosophy, hermeneutics and sport, and loves to meet over coffee with family and friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 294\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53042750292301,"sku":"9798385256396","price":49.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/2ViAdDkeFS9798385256396.webp?v=1766346925","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/faith-without-fear-risky-choices-facing-contemporary-christians-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}