REVIEW ON "GOD IS ALIVE",
by Zakeu A. Zengo: 1998, 204pp.
(The book is presently available only in Portuguese)






The book is an analysis that looks into how the present religious phenomena diverted the believers attention from the biblical God to an human made sort of God. This state of religious affairs has to be faced as a new move towards an entirely new forms of religious atheism and spiritual indifference, because, far from what happened in the classical atheism epoch, the present civilization has just found out that no life can be possible in the world away from God. According the author, this can be seen from two evidences: 1) Among the suffering people/countries the religious piety, included the Christian one, is directed towards a religious revival that brings into the faith's center one "useful God", who serves men in their seeking for better life in this world. Health, prosperity, exorcism, earthy happiness, emotional balance... has become the real and all important evidences for any religious conversion. 2) Among the well-off people, specially in those called developed countries, the remaining religious piety is directed towards two distinct "existential religious dimensions": the cultural christian life style and the ancient western and eastern cults. Those whose faith grasps to beliefs such as monotheism, creationism, hell, eternal life, christian revelation, holy ghost... remain faithful to the historical western Christianity, making their existence as practical christians and active church goers; the ones whose religious attention is given to things such as the holiness of the Earth, the inner spiritual constituency of human being... turned their "religious piety" to things such as the old eastern masters and gurus orientation, the human illumination, the spiritual bioenergization, etc. As a conclusion the author holds that our is a religious civilization, of God's triumph over the glories of Reason, of Secularization and those of Science. Nevertheless, it is in name of this Religion that the contemporary men and women have lost touch with the biblical God. To discover this God is the object of what the author calls "a challenge for the authentic Christianity".

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The Editor:

Editora Criação
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29055-540, Vitória-ES.
Brazil
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The Author:

Zakeu António Zengo
Seminário Teológico Batista do Sul do Brasil
Rua José Higino, 416 - Tijuca
20520-020, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
Brazil
Fax ----(021) 570-1833

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