Real Christianity
Just in time for the release of Amazing Grace, the movie about the life of William Wilberforce. This edition of his classic book from 1797, Real Christianity, is paraphrased in modern language and made more accessible to contemporary readers. This is the book that helped abolish the slave trade in the United Kingdom and called Christians to live a more authentic life of faith more than two hundred years ago. The timeless truths it contains will speak to readers in fresh ways today. Christians who eschew cultural Christianity in favor of a real faith in Christ, will find the principles here thought-provoking and applicable. The social justice orientation will appeal to readers of Jim Wallis, Os Guinness, Charles Colson, Shane Claiborne, John Perkins, Bono, and Nancy Pearcey. Readers will also find the book is a good litmus test of the authenticity of their own faith.
Top Highlights
“drifting along on this world’s ideas of living, oblivious to the consequences” (source)
“one day we will have to give an account of how we have lived and what we have done with what God has given us” (source)
“who were to be found in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Real Christianity
- Authors:
- Wilberforce, William
- Beltz, Bob
- Publisher: Bethany House
- Publication Date: 2006
- ISBN: 9781441267566
Bob Beltz (www.bobbeltz.com) is the senior pastor of
Highline Community Church in Centennial, Colorado, and president of
The Telos Project, a nonprofit corporation based in Littleton,
Colorado, seeking to influence contemporary, postmodern culture
with faith and family-friendly projects.
Over the last fifteen years Bob has been a special advisor to the
Anschutz Corporation, the parent company of Walden Media. In this
role Bob helped in the development, production, and marketing of
such films as Joshua, The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe, Amazing Grace: The William Wilberforce Story,
Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn
Treader. Bob served as a producer on Mark Burnett and Roma
Downey's Emmy-nominated The Bible series, the movie Son
of God, and the NBC series A.D.: The Bible
Continues.
Bob is the author of fifteen books, including the novels Lilith
Redeemed, Somewhere Fast, and She Loves You, the
bestselling Daily Disciplines for the Christian Man, and an
update of William Wilberforce's Real Christianity, published
in conjunction with the film Amazing Grace. He blogs at
bobbeltz.com on faith and culture, co-hosts the weekly radio
program You Get the Blessing, and is a sought-after speaker
and teacher.
Bob is a graduate of the University of Missouri and Denver
Seminary, where he earned both his Master of Arts and Doctor of
Ministry degrees. Bob's wife of forty-plus years, Allison, is
a religious liberty and human rights advocate. Bob and Allison
have a married daughter, Stephanie, a son, Baker, and three
grandchildren, Olivia, Emma, and Jaxon. When not writing,
speaking, or making movies, Bob can usually be seen heading into
the mountains of Colorado on his Harley-Davidson with a group of
cultural infidels.
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was an English politician
and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. At the age
of 26 he underwent a conversion experience and became an
evangelical Christian, which resulted in a lifelong concern for
reform. He headed the parliamentary campaign against the British
slave trade for many years until the passage of the Slave Trade Act
of 1807, which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire but
did not abolish slavery itself. In later years, Wilberforce
supported the campaign for the complete abolition of slavery. He
died shortly after the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 passed through
the House of Commons, freeing all slaves in the British Empire. He
was buried in Westminster Abbey.