Full name: Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

Author: Michael Horton Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Religion, Christianity, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780801013188 9780801072215 0801013186 0801072212

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. Similar books: Ashamed of the Gospel by John MacArthur The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller Resident Aliens by Stanley Hauerwas Heaven by Randy Alcorn Cold-Case Christianity by J. Warner Wallace Believing God by Beth Moore The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster The Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer Desiring God by John Piper Walking with God through Pain and Suffering by Timothy Keller The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day by Mark Batterson The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer A Praying Life by Paul E. Miller Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God by J. I. Packer The Cross of Christ by John R. W. Stott King's Cross by Timothy Keller