What Would I Believe If I Didn't Believe Anything?: A Handbook for Spiritual Orphans

by Kent Ira Groff

What Would I Believe if I Didn't Believe Anything? is a guidebook for spiritual orphans that shows how they can "doubt their way home" by embracing their doubts and asking the hard questions as a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787967580
• ISBN13: 9780787967581
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Tired of being in your head?

Many of the books out there are intellectual arguments. Those are important but that is not what a spiritual orphan needs. While this book has an intellectual foundation,it speaks to the heart and one's experience. This handbook doesn't offer answers but invites the reader to look deeply within oneself and honor one's journey. Kent Groff models this with his own personal reflections. The great thing about this book is that it enables the reader to journey with others. It is also easy to read with the lift-outs.

What Would I Believe If I Didn't Believe Anything?

Dr. Groff offers many images and stories which invite us to journey deeper to the place where we meet and are met by one greater than ourselves. He gently and playfully invites the agnostic to risk believing and the believer to risk questioning. He seems to trust that the richest place to walk in life is that thin line between faith and doubt (where we can learn from our the great faith traditions and contemporary culture without dismissing either). As a thirty-something pastor who struggles to believe much of what i've been taught and who continues to find great wisdom and grace in and through my doubts, i appreciate Dr. Groff's commitment to speaking to people like me, who thirst for meaning, but don't often find it where we are told to find it; and who often stumble upon it in the strangest of places. This is a book you'll want to read, return to, and journal with.

What I Would Believe if I Didn't Believe Anything?

I've read the manuscript for Kent's book. For the first time in any book I've ever read about spirituality, I felt connected. Finally someone (Kent) understands my experience with the Church.I love God, but have always struggled with the institutional Church, which has seemed far removed from where I "live, move, and have my being." I have been a spiritual orphan and Kent's book normalized my feelings in a way that the institutional Church has never been willing to name or to even address. If anyone has ever felt like a spiritual orphan, this is THE BOOK for them to buy. John Sivley