The Living Word Series · Three Volumes
The Living Word
From Paul to A Course in Miracles
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
From Paul to A Course in Miracles
"For the person who believes in grace and cannot quite receive it. For the person who knows God is love, and keeps encountering a version of God that does not feel entirely loving."
The Living Word · livingwordseries.comThe Living Word series begins with a question every serious reader of the New Testament eventually faces: how did the message become the institution? How did the Way — a navigational word, a path to walk — become Christianity, a membership to hold?
The answer moves through three distinct moments. Paul of Tarsus, the theological genius who built the church from his letters. The councils of the first four centuries, which took Paul's theology and systematized it into creed. And A Course in Miracles, which emerged in the twentieth century not as a replacement for Christianity but as a correction — the same voice that began the conversation in Galilee, speaking again when the distortions had accumulated to a point that required a direct response.
These books are written for readers who have loved the Christian faith and found, at some point, that it did not fully hold them. They are also written for ACIM students who have kept Paul and the councils at arm's length. Both communities discover they have been reading the same conversation from different sides of the same room.
The series is scholarly in register but written for a general reader. No prior knowledge of ACIM or academic theology is required — only a willingness to look at questions that have been waiting, with considerable patience, for someone willing to look at them without flinching.
Also by Dr. Whitehead: The Gospel Voices — five-book literary fiction series. biblebyjesus.com
Each book traces one movement of the twenty-century arc from Paul's Damascus Road to the councils that systematized his theology — and to the twentieth-century moment when the same voice spoke again.
Paul, the Architect of Christianity
He was on his way to arrest people. What happened outside Damascus launched the movement that would become Western Christianity. This book traces Paul's life, his theology of grace and atonement, his extraordinary gifts, and the framework problems that would haunt the faith he built for twenty centuries.
Forthcoming
From Paul to A Course in Miracles
Paul left behind unresolved tensions between unconditional grace and sacrificial necessity. The councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, and Chalcedon systematized those tensions into creed — and created a God-image that has troubled the faith of ordinary believers ever since.
Forthcoming
Jesus Speaks Again
In October 1965, a Columbia University psychologist began hearing a voice that identified itself as Jesus of Nazareth. What emerged was not a new religion but a correction — the same grace Paul glimpsed on the Damascus Road, without the sacrificial scaffolding.
Receive notice when Book Two and Book Three are published, along with occasional reflections on grace, the God-image, the pastoral cost of theology, and the correction that was always coming.
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