Is faith a search for security? Is faith the reason for taking risks? The answer to these questions will ultimately determine the quality of our faith – whether it will be a faith that flourishes and grows or a faith that is stunted and limited. Author Richard Kropf analyzes these faith choices with a unique approach. He combines the psycho-dynamics of Viktor Frankl, the faith analysis of Avery Dulles, and the faith stages researched by James Fowler to provide a provocative foundation for...
Combining the faith-development theory of James Fowler with the psychodynamics of Viktor Frankl, and utilizing many of the insights of contemporary biblical scholarship, the author has here proposed a unique and provocative interpretation of the life of Jesus as described in the Epistle to the Hebrews as the «leader and perfector of faith.» No doubt, many will find this approach to a «life of Christ» to be novel, even disturbingly «unorthodox». Yet it has been written in the conviction that...