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For people having gone through a pandemic (with deep, unsettling effects), this book offers an intelligent, traditional, and yet unpredictable account of five basic Christian beliefs that can help us, not to return to a previous Christian comfort zone, but to rediscover old truths as if for the first time. Victor Lee Austin starts with the belief in God as Creator, which, Austin says, is the beginning of an adventure. The second basic Christian claim is sin, which oddly is not something substantial but rather a hole in reality. Third is that God is active in the mess of things; fourth, that God has shown, in Jesus, what a real human being is. Finally, this adventure is throughout an ongoing discovery that in Jesus Christ people have their true friend.

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In the wake of our cultural and social pandemic exhaustion, Victor Austin issues a resounding call for Christians to pursue new life in Christ in this theologically serious and yet broadly accessible catechetical curriculum. --Elisabeth Rain Kincaid, Nashotah House Theological Seminary Victor Austin engages the post-COVID-19 world by turning with fresh eyes and renewed enthusiasm to the church's ministry of teaching. The time of the virus has brought not only new questions but also chance for reflection. Austin has seized this opportunity and given us a nuanced exploration of a fully human life. --John Bauerschmidt, Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee In this beautiful, thoughtful, and entertaining exposition, Fr. Austin makes the ancient and ever-true teaching of Christianity ever new and immediately relevant to the difficulties of our time. Above all--above safety, above sinful preference for lower goods, above self-interest--Fr. Austin calls us to faithful Christian friendship. It alone makes us truly and fully human, and this book will help us get there. --Stephen Hildebrand, Franciscan University of Steubenville

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Victor Lee Austin is Theologian-in-residence of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas and Church of the Incarnation, Dallas. He is the author of several books that deal with ethics and theology in everyday life, including Christian Ethics: A Guide for the Perplexed and Friendship: The Heart of Being Human.

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