Gaslighted by God Reconstructing a disillusioned faith

Tiffany Yecke Brooks

Book - 2022

"A book for those who have experienced the spiritual trauma of fundamentalist Christianity, in which the author shows how a more authentic faith can be raised from the ashes of disillusionment"--

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Published
Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2022.
Language
English
Main Author
Tiffany Yecke Brooks (author)
Physical Description
vi, 246 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780802878687
  • Introduction: This is not a book about that
  • Shell-shocked faith: reconciling scripture and experience
  • Asking: the God who demands too much
  • Apathy: the God who doesn't seem to care
  • Atrophy: the God who can't seem to act
  • Anger: the God of punishment
  • Ambiguity: the God of the inscrutable
  • Abandonment: the God who no longer feels present
  • Absence: the God who never was
  • Arbitrariness: the God of shifting goalposts
  • Antagonism: the God of chaos
  • Accountability: the God who expects us to act
  • Anxiety and abuse: the God of manipulation
  • Allegory: the God who must fit our narrative
  • Authenticity: a God of infinite faces.
Review by Booklist Review

Writing instructor Brooks (Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution, 2021, with Claire Bellerjean), the coauthor of more than two dozen books, takes on the disconnect between expectation and reality when hurting Christians turn to their church for comfort and instead find shame and rejection. Like shell-shocked soldiers, disillusioned believers are all too often accused of moral failure simply because they express doubt and pain when life feels unfairly overwhelming. Brooks faults Western Christianity for creating a narrow, transactional view of God that is contrary to Scripture. She thoughtfully revisits familiar characters and makes exegeses of key Bible passages, casting them in a fresh light that supports her arguments. Brooks thoroughly examines her provocative premise in literary chapters that unify a laundry list of complaints leveled by struggling believers, ending with a strong call to action for the faithful, leaders or not, to minister with compassion and grace. Complemented by discussion questions and a Scripture index, this compelling discourse is both academic and accessible, a strong entry to current discussion on the subject.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.