A Faith of Your Own: Naming What You Really Believe
Ronald J. Allen
Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, 144 pp., $16.95, WJKBooks.com
A Faith of Your Own is an important resource for those looking to articulate what they believe. For Christians hoping to make sense out of all the ideas on church doctrines, a resource such as this goes a long way in trying to formulate a faith in which one can have confidence. Allen leaves no major doctrine unexamined. He identifies the major doctrines of the church from the Trinity to how Christians relate to other religions and explains how Christians have thought about these doctrines throughout church history.
This kind of book is best used within the context of an intimate community or discussion group. The questions at the end of each chapter and the exercises in the back of the book truly help determine what it is you believe.
