This is an excellent book on the ‘New Tolerance’, a cultural movement that is aggressively being promoted in news programs and in print today. The author communicates clearly what is happening, and how Christians can be prepared with a biblical response.
Believers in Christ need to read this book and be aware of the current effects of this movement upon your children’s education, the workplace, marriage & family life, and even your Church, and Pastor’s that either promote it or will protect you from it. Entertainment and media is a most powerful source of indoctrination for the ‘New Tolerance.”
Josh McDowell and Hostetler explain what “Tolerance” means in today’s postmodern culture, this he writes, is vastly different from the dictionary’s definition, and he also write how the ‘new tolerance’ veers from the biblical instruction of tolerance written about in the Bible. The authors clarify the various definitions, and give a thorough description, as well as include in the book a helpful overview comparison chart.
The ‘New Tolerance’ seeks ‘approval’ and ‘acceptance’ of behaviors that were once biblically consider to be sin. A person who accepts the new tolerance believes---his behavior or lifestyle represents (who the person is), therefore, to name any sort of behavior as a Sin is considered intolerant.
The authors explain the increased acceptance of the new tolerance is consistent with the loss of “Ethical theism” in our culture. Ethical theism is the belief that: right and wrong are absolute and unchangeable, communicated to people from God through the Bible. God’s instructions are replaced, and knowledge and human accomplishments are elevated to a position of new moral standards and truth.
This book will help you to understand the new tolerance and equip you to counter it’s effects on you faith, your family and your church.
The New Tolerance by Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc http://tyndale.com/00_Home/index.php
ISBN: 0-8423-7088-9
This book can be purchased at: Christianbook.com
Reading / Review Date: December 2006
Reading / Review Date: December 2006
The New Tolerance - Josh McDowell
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