After Doubt: How to Question Your Faith without Losing It

The church must accompany people who are deconstructing their faith and provide them with resources to help them rebuild it, according to A.J. Swoboda, who has seen many young people struggle with their fundamental Christian beliefs. He provides tools to assist emerging adults in navigating their faith in a challenging environment.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 02 March 2021
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group

Is there a way to walk faithfully through doubt and come out the other side with a deeper love for Jesus, the church, and its tradition? Can we question our faith without losing it? Award-winning author, pastor, and professor A.J. Swoboda has witnessed many young people wrestle with their core Christian beliefs. Too often, what begins as a set of critical and important questions turns to resentment and faith abandonment. Unfortunately, the church has largely ignored its task of serving people along their journey of questioning. The local church must walk alongside those who are deconstructing their faith and show them how to reconstruct it.

Drawing on his own experience of deconstruction, Swoboda offers tools to help emerging adults navigate their faith in a hostile landscape. Doubt is a part of our natural spiritual journey, says Swoboda, and deconstruction is a legitimate space to encounter the living God. After Doubt offers a hopeful, practical vision of spiritual formation for those in the process of faith deconstruction and those who serve them.

Foreword by pastor and author John Mark Comer.

Weight: 366g
Dimension: 200 x 304 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781587434518