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This collection of essays by Robert Funk delves into the contributions of notable artists and intellectuals, including Kafka, Beckett, Henry Miller, Castaneda, Fowles, and Thoreau, to illuminate the true successors of Jesus. In the section titled 'Voices of Silence,' Funk examines the interplay between language and contemporary reality. He ultimately addresses the pivotal theological question of whether individuals can identify a genuine world to which they can fully commit, offering twenty-one propositions on theology in response.

In Rescuing Religion, John Van Hagen argues that psychological theories and models of psychotherapy can help one hold on to a religious worldview while simultaneously living in a world increasingly described in scientific terms. Rescuing Religion grapples with that tension as it focuses on science's recent challenges to the historicity of the major Bible stories: Moses never existed, Jesus did not start a church. Such challenges present an opportunity for religious growth. We can go behind Bible stories and glimpse the storytellers who, in their own times, faced enormous crises of faith. We can learn from their struggles. And, like those ancient authors, we can search for God's power, even as we realize that we can only describe it in finite terms.