The Ruins

Bestselling author Rob Bell presents an important and provocative picture of faith, challenging preconceptions held by Christians and atheists alike.Faith has become easy fodder for new atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. From creation to salvation, they attack the essential beliefs of the Christian faith.Love Wins is about a secret deep in the heart of millions of Christians. The secret is this: they don't believe what they have been taught are the essential truths of their faith either.Out of respect for their tradition, they keep quiet, confiding to a few close, safe friends their doubts and questions about salvation (Who's in, who's out?), about Jesus (The only way?), and, of course, God (Is God violent? Are billions of people going to be punished forever in torment in hell).In Love Wins, bestsellin author Rob Bell goes to the heart of questions that haunt people of all perspectives, Christians and not, in and out of the church.Bell draws a vivid Christianity of faith as Jesus would have wanted it to be, rather than as it has been stereotyped in recent years by both fundamentalist Christians and the new atheists. At the heart of this new picture is a simple and life-changing message: Love Wins.