Sunday, February 10, 2008

RECOMMENDED BOOKS - MICHAEL HORTON

The Rev. Dr. Michael S. Horton is the J. Gresham Machen professor of systematic theology at Westminster Seminary California. He is the main host of the
White Horse Inn radio broadcast and editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine. He received his M.A. from Westminster Seminary California, his Ph.D. from Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and the University of Coventry, and also completed a research fellowship at Yale University Divinity School. Dr. Horton is author of more than 20 books and is a minister in the United Reformed Churches of North America.


CHRISTLESS CHRISTIANITY
Michael Horton

Category: Church, Theology
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Is it possible that we have left Christ out of Christianity? Is the faith and practice of American Christians today more American than Christian? These are the provocative questions Michael Horton addresses in this thoughtful, insightful book. He argues that while we invoke the name of Christ, too often Christ and the Christ-centered gospel are pushed aside. The result is a message and a faith that are, in Horton's words, "trivial, sentimental, affirming, and irrelevant." This alternative "gospel" is a message of moralism, personal comfort, self-help, self-improvement, and individualistic religion. It trivializes God, making him a means to our selfish ends. Horton skillfully diagnoses the problem and points to the solution: a return to the unadulterated gospel of salvation. This book is an outstanding expose and apologetic revealing how the gospel of works righteousness has infiltrated the "Christian landscape". Horton reveals its presence in prosperity theology, postmodern emergent circles, and seeker sensitive mega churches.

1 comment:

Cameron Buettel said...

Michael Horton has one of the most penetrating Christian minds going around. His book Christless Christianity is an outstanding expose of how works righteousness and moralism has infiltrated so many spheres of "professing Christianity".