Pilgrim
A Theological Memoir
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- 199,00 kr
Publisher Description
Follow the faith journey of Tony Campolo, one of the most influential figures in modern evangelical Christianity
Millions of Christians know Tony Campolo as a popular speaker, bestselling author, parachurch leader, pastor, and counselor to a US president. But few know his personal faith journey—how throughout his life, existential encounters and unexplored ideas compelled him to continually reexamine and reform his theology.
As a child, Campolo saw how his parents and the various churches he attended embraced different approaches to faith. Growing up, he wrestled with questions about racism, worldliness, and faith and science. He would go on to write and speak about war and peace, feminism, capitalism, religion and politics, nationalism, homosexuality, and the religious right. Pilgrim: A Theological Memoir traces the evolution of Campolo's theology as he matured as a believer, scholar, and evangelical leader who continually sought to engage thoughtfully with the sociocultural challenges of his time and to encourage fellow believers to do the same.
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Late pastor Campolo (Connecting Like Jesus), who died in 2024, recounts in this sensitive memoir his lifelong search for a set of "spiritual ethics." He grew up Baptist, and as an adolescent joined a fundamentalist Christian youth group that promoted the idea that the world is a "dirty and dangerous" place full of spiritually impure people. Charting how he dismantled that theology, Campolo recalls how seeing a woman cast out of his childhood church because she was Black influenced his later efforts as a pastor to expose housing discrimination, and how in 2015 he reversed his long-held opposition to gay marriage, drawing widespread condemnation from evangelical churches and leaders. Woven throughout is an up-close analysis of the hardening of the religious right during the latter half of the 20th century, as leaders wielded highly emotional issues like abortion to galvanize Republican voters and disguise, in Campolo's words, "the ugliness of their political agenda" on "non-Christian" issues, such as fracking and other environmentally damaging activities. The result is a revealing window into an unique theological mind.
