With a title like that, I’m hesitant to call this a book for our times for fear it’s taken as equally sarcastic. However, if you strip the smart aleck from the name, I think it’s a legitimate question that needs to be considered. This isn’t a book about sliding in through a crack in the door because of laziness. It’s a book about separating what’s really important to believe to be any kind of a Christian versus many of the subjects that Christian’s enjoy debating.
The book is so straightforward that listing their different points would almost defeat the purpose of the book. However, I think the writers did an excellent job with their list of things a Christian needs to believe or things a Christian really shouldn’t believe. They are lists that are likely to make people feel a bit uncomfortable. Maybe even confrontational. However, I urge you to stop and consider why you respond that way. In my case, my instant denial and many arguments for why I was right came solely from a desire not to be called out.
So yes, this is a book for the times. It’s not about being as cool as Christian as possible. Or as easy going a Christian as possible. But it strips away many of the Churches pet topics and takes a hard, scriptural look at what is left.
My thanks to Westminster John Knox Press for providing me with a copy of What’s the Least I Can Believe and Still be Christian? via NetGalley, in return for my honest opinion of the book.