Doubts and Loves - Tapa blanda

With imagination and audacity, Richard Holloway's Doubts and Loves offers a fearless critique of the faith, with uncertainty and disbelief accorded full dignity. * * Sunday Herald * * It will appeal to all of us who continue to be interested in the moral challenge of our time -- Jeanette Winterson A sensitive, brave and inspiring book -- Karen Armstrong A thoughtful, playful, courageous and deeply altruistic book . . . a fine companion for anyone who wishes to live a life of any depth -- A. L. Kennedy I don't know when I have been more impressed, indeed, excited, by a work . . . It answers the seemingly tormenting questions in a completely satisfying way -- Ruth Rendell

In this passionate and heartfelt book Richard Holloway interrogates the traditional ways of understanding the Bible. He liberates the power of the great Christian stories from their sometimes antiquated settings, and reveals the essence of Jesus's teachings. In doing so, he shows that the challenge of Jesus remains revolutionary, humane and of immense contemporary importance. Doubts and Loves is a radical but accessible work of scholarship - a blueprint for a new kind of faith, which offers spiritual hope to millions across the world who feel that the Church has lost its way.