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I Am a Misanthrope: Loving God, Despising His People, and Finding the Exit — A Confession on Faith, Pride, and Church - Couverture souple

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Tiger, Arthur A.

 
9798903840717: I Am a Misanthrope: Loving God, Despising His People, and Finding the Exit — A Confession on Faith, Pride, and Church
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ISBN 13 : 9798903840717
Editeur : His Story for Us, 2026

Synopsis

I believe in God. I cannot stand His people.

For years, Arthur Tiger sat in the back row of church and judged. The shallow sermons. The performative worship. The gap between what believers professed and how they lived. He saw it all with devastating clarity and called it honesty.

Then he discovered it was pride — the most adaptive sin, the one that learns to speak the language of faith so fluently that even the person speaking it cannot hear the accent.

I Am a Misanthrope is a brutally honest exploration of what happens when a man who loves God realizes he has been using God's standards to do God's job. It is not a guide to loving difficult people. It is the confession of a man who finds people unbearable and has stopped pretending that makes him righteous.

Weaving together theology (Paul, Augustine, Bonhoeffer), psychology (Jung, Kernberg, Bowlby), and philosophy (Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Cioran), Tiger traces the architecture of the believing misanthrope:

• How contempt disguises itself as discernment
- How isolation masquerades as integrity
- How the clearest sight in the room can belong to the blindest person in it
- Why the judge's seat doesn't belong to you — not because you're wrong, but because you don't have the information

This book does not promise transformation. It does not end with healing. It ends with a decision — made every morning, broken every afternoon, remade every evening — to step off a throne that was never yours.

For believers who are tired of church but not of God. For the person who has never said out loud: I believe — but I cannot stand these people.

"Faith is not 'I like God's people.' Faith is 'I do not like God's people, and I am still here.'"

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À propos de l'auteur

Arthur A. Tiger is a writer and theologian who explores the territory where faith meets science, philosophy, and the mysteries of human experience. At the heart of his work stands the apostle Paul - a figure he returns to again and again, reconstructing lost epistles, reimagining Paul's voice for today, and tracing the depths of his radical transformation. Beyond Pauline studies, Tiger writes across an unusually wide range: from astrobiology and cosmology to psychology, relationships, and cultural criticism - always searching for the connections that unite these disciplines rather than divide them. His own journey from skepticism to faith runs through everything he writes. Rather than offering easy answers, he invites readers to discover that honest questioning and genuine belief are not opposites but companions - and that every scientific discovery is not a challenge to faith but an invitation to see it more clearly.

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Éditeur
His Story for Us
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798903840717
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
149
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