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The Logic of Intersubjectivity: Brian McLaren’s Philosophy of Christian Religion is unavailable, but you can change that!

To survey harsh criticisms against Brian Douglas McLaren (1956‒), readers gain the inaccurate impression that he is a heretical relativist who denies objective truth and logic. While McLaren's inflammatory and provocative writing style is partly to blame, this study also suspects that his critics base much of their analyses on only small portions of his overall corpus. The result becomes a...

will then expose how he applies his abductive logic to the incarnation of Christ, suggesting that McLaren is distinctively attracted to Jesus as the paradoxical Divine Revealer. The result is a stress on divine mystery and the impression that Christianity is a faith-based, suprarational belief in God’s loving solidarity with the universe. Having concluded that conventional paradigms are ineffective at discipleship (chapters 2‒4) and having, subsequently, inferred certain beliefs about the incarnation