The Divine Magician : The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith (Paperback)

from DubiousDisciple

Are you courageous enough to subject your belief in God to psychoanalysis? I dare you to open the cover on this one. In The Divine Magician, Rollins compares the Gospel to a magic trick in which the magician presents an item, makes it disappear, and then makes it reappear. These three steps are c...

from StephenBarkley

A classic magic trick has three parts: 1. The Pledge: "An object is presented to the audience" (3) 2. The Turn: "This object is made to disappear" (3) 3. The Prestige: "The object then miraculously reappears" (3) In The Divine Magician, Rollins uses this unorthodox metaphor to describe Christiani...

from DubiousDisciple

Are you courageous enough to subject your belief in God to psychoanalysis? I dare you to open the cover on this one. In The Divine Magician, Rollins compares the Gospel to a magic trick in which the magician presents an item, makes it disappear, and then makes it reappear. These three steps are c...

from StephenBarkley

A classic magic trick has three parts: 1. The Pledge: "An object is presented to the audience" (3) 2. The Turn: "This object is made to disappear" (3) 3. The Prestige: "The object then miraculously reappears" (3) In The Divine Magician, Rollins uses this unorthodox metaphor to describe Christiani...