My Review of "Flipped"

Don't miss Doug Pagitt's Flipped:  The Provocative Truth that Changes Everything We Know about God.  This book has fresh Bible interpretations and anecdotal stories to keep you turning pages while Pagitt presents what's come to be known as "Progressive Christianity".  He even throws in a little Einstein as he explains what it means to be the light of the world.

Flipped is about turning everything we know about God over and seeing it fresh.  This book will challenge you, know matter who you are.  The book itself is really nothing more than a theological imagination of what it's like to "live, move, and exist" in God.  

Pagitt wants to free us from what he calls an "If/Then service", or a "Transaction System", in which we bargain with God.  If we do this, then God will do that.  If we believe this, God will provide that.  If we can discard the idea of conditional existence in God, then we become free to just be.  To live in the moment, to become part of the whole, to see every human being as existing "in God".  Removing this idolatrous image of God from Christian vocabulary is an important thing for the Bible, and it's a message that Pagitt recovers with lots of imagination here.

I really enjoyed this book.

I received this book free, from the Blogging for Books program, in exchange for my honest review.