JourneyOnline
By Samir Selmanovic,
Jossey-Bass, 2009, RRP $42.95
Reviewed by Alan Renton
This book is as mind-blowing as its title and, surprisingly, Christian and interfaith.
It is relevant, especially to us in the Uniting Church, as we consider the question: “Was God here working with Australia and its Indigenous people before Christianity came?”
On the anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre on 11 September, it is also relevant to the question: “How can Muslims, Christians and people of other faiths share our world together?”
Author Samir Selmanovic began life as a Croatian Muslim in atheistic, communist Yugoslavia.
While a conscript infantryman he became a Seventh Day Adventist Christian. He is now a leading churchman in America.
He reflects on his life’s journey and personal desire for good relations with his own Muslim kin and their faith.
He suggests a way in which God works through all peoples.
It’s Really All About God is easy to read, concise and logical.
Yet it challenges ordinary evangelical Christians like me to think deeply about how God may have worked in all his world and its people.
Almost every page is a challenge. A must read for those interested in interfaith dialogue.
If there are any deficiencies they are more than made up for by the positive challenges.
