What does that master preacher of the gospel Brian Zahnd have to say about Walking with Grandfather? ...the story Michael Hardin tells in Walking with Grandfather is timely and is bound to find many eager readers. On the other hand, the account of Michael’s spiritual journey—or as he describes it, A Skeptic’s Journey to Spirituality—is bound to make some readers cock their heads at its apparent strangeness. But I would suggest that the apparent strangeness has more to do with our residual loyalty to Western empiricism than anything else. As a serious scholar of Karl Barth, Martin Luther, and John Calvin, the author is thoroughly grounded in the Reformed theological tradition of the West. This tradition is intellectually robust (as anyone who has ever spent any time with Barth’s Church Dogmatics well knows!) But as Michael Hardin sought healing for his own soul he needed more than academic theology (as valid as this is). What Michael discovered was an ancient path that might be described as aboriginal spirituality. From the point of view of a Christian theologian aboriginal spirituality is not heterodox, but simply a spirituality rooted in something other than the European Enlightenment—a spirituality not of the ivory tower, but of the moss covered forest. You can order yours now my friends.
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