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Praise for
Beyond Belief
What kind of God do we believe in? In 1945, Clinton Gardner, an American soldier in charge of the newly liberated Nazi death camp at Buchenwald, realized that “the idea of a supreme being up there, or out there. . . .” intervening in history and our lives “made no sense to me.” But this did not lead Gardner to abandon faith; it led him over a lifetime to a new paradigm. Beyond Belief is a moving account of the journey. It is the summation of a fifty-year encounter with remarkable figures that gave him new ways to think about God. He came to see the life-changing insights of his Dartmouth professor, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, concerning the “cross of reality,” the “religionless Christianity” of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the panentheism of Vladimir Solovyov. He weaves these insights into his own new paradigm. Read it.
—M. Darrol Bryant
Distinguished Professor
Department of Religious Studies
University of Waterloo, Canada
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy was an immensely innovative thinker, and the current conversations in religion and philosophy are just catching up to him. He was “post-modern” before the term was invented. Gardner has organized and focused Rosenstock-Huessy’s brilliant but sometimes fragmented work into a readable narrative that can be enjoyed by both scholars and non-specialists.
—Harvey Cox
Hollis Professor of Divinity
Harvard University
Author of When Jesus Came to Harvard
Read this volume, do! It will delight and exercise your mind, and it will give you much of value to ponder.
—Fred Berthold, Jr.
Religion Department
Dartmouth College
This thoughtful and wide-ranging book gains much of its power from the fact that it never forgets its home base at the Congregational Church (UCC) in Norwich, Vermont.
—Avery Post
Former President
United Church of Christ
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