God Outside the Box

by Richard Harries

Is the Church a box from which God has escaped? Are people finding spirituality and relating to God in ways that have nothing to do with the Church? Men and women today have strong values and beliefs about caring for animals and for the creation, about tolerance for others of different beliefs and customs, and about how we each may live mature and fulfilled lives. They often feel that the Church's moral teaching does not come up to their standards. Objections to the traditional Christian view of God and religion Christianity focuses on sin and God's an egomaniac - he's designed the world solely for his God sentences people to everlasting religion keeps people religion is stuck in the religion is the belief in a wise and loving creator is not compatible with the suffering and agony evident in the world. In 'God Outside the Box', Richard Harries takes seriously thoughts and criticisms such as these and answers them in detail. "Bishop Harries believes that "Christianity has within its treasure store enormous spiritual riches". His book has certainly helped to display some of those riches which modern society desperately needs." The Tablet.

Genres: Spirituality, Religion

194 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 2003

About the author

Richard Douglas Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth (1936–2026), was a bishop of the Church of England and a British Army officer. He was the Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006. From 2008 until 2012 he was the Gresham Professor of Divinity.