Michael Hardin is an independent scholar residing in Pennsylvania.
He has a master's from North Park Seminary in Chicago and is a PhD
candidate at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia, where
his thesis is on "Religion and Revelation in Karl Barth and Rene
Girard." Author of ten books and a score of peer reviewed articles,
Michael is a popular teacher with a broad global audience. He is a
singer-songwriter who has studied wilderness survival with Tom
Brown Jr. for over seventeen years. Michael is known as The Dude of
Theology and he carries this moniker proudly!
Chris Tilling is Senior Lecturer in New Testament at St. Mellitus
College
"Michael's passion for the gospel, heaving through his anger with
the fake merchants of religion he indicts, is a searing wake-up
call. His notion of mysticism as a downward movement to the Divine,
becoming incarnate in our day-to-day, and his refusal to let
anything get in the way of forgiveness shine through this
exceptional teaching."
--James Alison, Catholic priest and theologian
"Hardin begins by expressing the sense of frustration, at times
mounting to rage, that many Christians feel at the moment as they
contemplate the fractious, fake, and frequently vicious landscape
of American Christianity. He unleashes a prophetic 'no' upon this
'church, ' laying bare its problems at their root. As we read on,
however, we find that Hardin's 'no' is undergirded by a far more
powerful 'yes.' Behind the fake Jesus is the real Jesus, whom
Hardin knows and serves so faithfully. So the book leads us on with
undiminished pace and passion, beyond the dreadful mess that is
much of current Christianity, into a life of authentic
discipleship. . . . Hardin's short, urgent book is, quite simply, a
book many of us need to read. By turns I resonated, I laughed, and
I repented. I urge you all to do likewise."
--Douglas A. Campbell, Professor of New Testament, Duke Divinity
School
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