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After The Church

Divine Encounter in a sexual age

Author: Claire Henderson Davis

A striking and original first book, which seeks to find

new ways of thinking about God for a generation that has lost

touch with the Church

‘This is a moving account of Claire's journey from the tyranny of a received doctrine to an authentic personal understanding of her own Christian life.  Both her parents started that journey by leaving the Roman Catholic Church.  What they started as an external path towards the truth, their daughter has completed through an internal re-creation of herself from her own depths.  This passage from a received creed to a meaningful inner faith is what the present age is demanding of Christian believers.  This account will be a help to others who are engaged in the same struggle.’  Neville Symington

'Beautifully written and bravely told, Claire Henderson Davis' story places a powerful challenge before the Christian Church.'  Richard Holloway 

‘Poet Patrick Kavanagh wrote God must be allowed to surprise us. Claire Henderson Davis offers us an amazing blend of personal biography, accumulated experience, depth psychology and contemporary interpretation to jolt us into fresh understandings of such images and concepts as The Fall, Babel, The Good Samaritan or The Incarnation that point beyond both crass consumerism and idolised identities to suggest a constantly surprising, open, forgiving story of human relationships.‘ Micheal O’Siadhail

‘This book is a gem, to be recommended to anyone grappling with the meaning of life in a Western post-Christian world. Claire Henderson Davis deconstructs key Christian dogmas, but also translates them into deep patterns of meaning that illuminate our everyday dynamic of life. It is a translation that is deeply autobiographical. She brings in her own story and her relations with her family in powerful and poignant ways. But it is a kind of autobiography that can touch other autobiographies, allowing each reader to realize the similar patterns that illuminate her or his own life.’  
Rosemary Radford Ruether 

Author:Claire Henderson Davis is a freelance writer and artist, and holds a PhD in theology from the University of Edinburgh.  She is the daughter of Charles Davis, the Roman Catholic priest and theologian who left the Church in 1967, and married Florence Henderson.  Her reflections in this book stem from her own upbringing on the edge of institutional Christianity

Categories: Apologetics, Belief/Apologetics

Publication Date: 28 June 2007 By Canterbury Press

Binding/Format: Paperback      Pages: 128

Status: In Stock

Price: £8.99

ISBN:  9781853117367

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