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What if orthodoxy is dead and AI knows why? A barefoot monk, a broken church, and an open future. A retired tech entrepreneur. Fifty years as a committed evangelical. A decade of questions he couldn't outrun. And a 120-mile pilgrimage through Italy that changed everything.
Shadowing St. Francis follows Jonathan Bentley from Florence to Assisi to Rome, walking the ancient path of a man who stripped naked in the town square, handed his clothes to his father, and walked into the woods to find God.
Eight hundred years later, Francis of Assisi still has something to say-to those exhausted by certainty, wounded by the church, and wondering what faith looks like in a world of algorithms and anxiety.
This book is for you if you: - You're wondering about AI and how it will effect and what it means to be human
- Want to know what Saint Francis has to say to our times
- Have been hurt by weaponized religion
- You've given up on church but not on Jesus
- Are wondering about AI and will it help or hurt us
What you'll find inside: - A memoir of spiritual reconstruction not based on creeds and doctrine
- An introduction to Open and Relational Theology-a God who walks
with us rather than scripting our lives
- Reflections on St. Francis as a guide for post-evangelical faith
- An unexpected conversation between ancient mysticism and artificial intelligence
Praise for Shadowing St. Francis: "Profoundly hopeful... Bentley's storytelling gives theology a human face."
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Thomas Jay Oord, author of
Open and Relational Theology "This is a book for question-askers and those who suspect that the gospel might be wider and wilder than we've been told."
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Keri Ladouceur, Executive Director & Co-Founder, Post Evangelical Collective
"You cannot think your way to God. In this pilgrimage, ideas are not argued but lived-textured with doubt, humor, longing, and faith."
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Samantha Beach Kiley, co-author of
Next Sunday "What happens when theology steps out of abstraction and onto the road-faith moving beyond rivalry into something freer."
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Jonathan Foster, author of
Theology of Consent Shadowing St. Francis is published by SacraSage Press.
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