Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Chrisian Spirituality
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I never liked jazz composition because jazz composition doesn’t resolve. . . . I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve. But that was before any of this happened. In Donald Miller’s early years, he was abstractedly familiar with a distant God. But when he came to know Jesus Christ, he pursued the Christian life with fantastic zeal. Within a few years he had a successful ministry that ultimately left him feeling empty, burned out, and, once again, far away from God. In this intimate, soul-searching account, Miller describes his remarkable journey back to a culturally significant, infinitely loving God.
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I selected up this book because of its subtitle: “Nonreligious thoughts on Christian Spirituality.” I was quickly disappointed, but. I would hardly call Miller’s approach nonreligious. His approach to religion has a heavy leaning toward Evangelical Christianity. He just drops the right-winged Republican aspects of it. Rumor has it that, this is supposed to makes it “nonreligious”. He also appears to view sacramental religions such as Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy as curiosities. And heaven forefend if you’re Buddhist. Yet despite this bias in a supposedly nonreligious book and despite the fact that his anecdotes could be a small too precious I nonstop reading because I did find some excellent insights.
Then I reached page 106. The man really believes in Satan. Not Evil. That I could deal with. No, he believes in a spiritual being whose goal is to lead people into sin. That was simply too adolescent for me. Simply place, if you want a mature insight into spirituality, this book is not for you. It might be fantastic for disaffected twenty-something Evangelicals. But no one else is going to profit from this book. Pick up Augustine. Pick up Merton. Pick up Chesterton or Lewis. Pick up anyone but this guy.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Don’t waste your time or your money. Stabbing myself with a dull pencil would have been more enjoyable
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I mean the dude obviously hasn’t spent much time really listening to jazz. He thinks it doesn’t resolve. He thinks it doesn’t resolve so much that its lack of resolution ends up being a metaphor for G-D or something. But, um, maybe the girl he was trying to impress by telling her he was into jazz was too polite to tell him this, but jazz does indeed resolve, not in the way a Speilberg movie does, but in the way that any art that deals in abstraction does. (I know Evangelical Christians, even hip ones who are not worried to use words like “jazz” get a small uncomfortable around abstraction.)
Anyway, I just thought you should know the book is based on a dopey conceit. Listen to some Bechet, some Mingus, some Thelonious Monk, or some Von Freeman and then read whatever you want. The composition itself will bring you closer to G-D.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
So many these days are scrambling mentally. After being disappointed with church or having a negative evangelical experience, anything different is sought for relief or a break.Give me something that rings really real, authoritatively authentic, genuinely genuine, refreshingly honest. A taste of something additional than my past experience with religion.
Along comes this sort of religious brand. But called non-religious. Non-threatening. Non-demanding. Bluntly honest. Heartfelt. Sincere. Generic spirituality with native american, hippie, outcast, fringe flavoring to flavor things up from dry, stale, same-ancient, narrow, intolerant evangelicaldom as perceived by the disaffected, fallen away, drifting soul. Give me honesty, not automatically truth. Intent becomes more valid than content here.
Of all the books on spiritual restoration out there, do they drive you to Jesus and deeper relations with Him? Do they tug you emotionally or cognitively or viscerally or soully to the Bible and what God Himself longs to speak to our inner self? Do they make you question all your questioning, doubt your doubts? Do they escort you to God’s loving Truth or, merely as anemic substitute, additional people’s perception of what feels right and honestly appealing and soothing to a wounded intellect? Do they force you to the Cross and suffering and identification with Jesus’ passion, or as a replacement for offer a bypass, exemption, escape hatch, detour, fleeting cut, simpler way to follow Christ more conveniently, our way?
This book seems to force you to the leader, his circle, his gravitation, his experiments, his radicalism, his doubts, his unbeliefs, his questioning of the Lord and His message of the Cross, his dismissal of the importance of sanctified living to please your Heavenly Bridegroom, Jesus.
Nonreligious thoughts? Maybe. Christian Spirituality? According to a seeker-trying-to-find (Donald), rather than the Finder trying to seek the lost (Jesus).
Not recommended except as a case study of where much of American sentimental spiritual searching has wandered adrift. Chilling to see Francis Schaeffer’s predictions about the ‘empty evangelical’, ‘aching post-modern’, ‘angst of the mentally disillusioned’ – many from Christian homes and schools – come to full fruition. If nothing else, this ought to trigger a re-read of Schaeffer’s deeply compassionate and insightful works, especially Right Spirituality.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book was described as in Brilliant condition. Pages were torn, there was a hole that ongoing in the front take in of the book and punched thru the first 4 chapters. The entire book had been folded and wrinkled at some point. The words are all readable, but I do not feel it was priced for Brilliant condition. I will not order from this company again.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5