"You may have to betray your faith in order to keep it."

Author of How (Not) to Speak About God
and
The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief

At Mars Hill Graduate School
2501 Elliott Avenue
Seattle WA

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
7:00 pm

Peter Rollins is no armchair theologian. A young scholar from Northern Ireland, he is a working philosopher speaking to the emergent conversation (what Phyllis Tickle calls the "New Reformation" and the "Great Emergence") with a distinctive voice.

In The Fidelity of Betrayal: Toward a Church Beyond Belief Pete asks, What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate act of affirming God required forsaking God? And what if fidelity to the Judeo-Christian scriptures demanded their renunciation? In short, what if the only way of finding real faith involved betraying that faith with a kiss, like Judas did to Christ? The author of 2006's much-talked-about debut, How (Not) to Speak of God - is at it again.

The Fidelity of Betrayal explores the subversive and clandestine nature of a Christianity that dwells within religious institutions while simultaneously undermining them. For an increasing number of Christians - this is the picture of a faith that is worth believing in.