Redeeming Fear: A Constructive Theology for Living into Hope (Prisms)

Our brains are hard-wired to experience the emotion of fear. Yet do not be afraid is a common refrain from the Bible used for both comfort and chastening. Too often we have treated fear an emotion that helps protect us from threats as something simply to be dismissed ignored or suppressed. Being afraid means so much more than simply fighting or running from a threat; to be afraid is to remember that something in life is worth living for. In fact there may even be circumstances where fear is Gods best response to what we are experiencing. In this book Whitehead helps us find the roots of hope in the soil of our fears so that we can form lives and communities of hope in the midst of a culture of fear.