Holy Play vs. Purpose Driven -- New Book Challenges Traditional Views on God and Purpose

Boston, MA (PRWEB) November 10, 2006

Publishers Weekly has just hailed a new book as "an engaging...provocative counterweight" to the mega-selling Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren.

In highlighting Holy Play: The Joyful Adventure of Unleashing Your Divine Purpose (Jossey-Bass, Jan, 2007, http://www.holyplay.com) by Kirk Byron Jones, Publishers Weekly said the book effectively challenges the contention by Warren and others that "God has predetermined a unique, singular purpose for each human life." In opposition, Jones, a professor of ethics at Andover Newton Theological School, believes that determining one's calling in life can be "an exuberant process of mining one's deepest desires that delights the God who wishes to inspire our choices, not dictate them.."

In striking contrast to the rigorous 40-day discipline of Purpose Driven Life, Holy Play proposes a 5-step process meant to change the way persons understand God and purpose, thereby enabling them to become more clear and confident about their purpose:

1. Believe that God is your divine partner, not your domineering parent.

2. Believe that vocation is an open possibility, not a closed proposition.

3. Accept that you are not just creature but creator as well.

4. Dream your way to purpose.

5. Joyfully play your dreams.

Jones has a dream of his own, sharing a platform with Rick Warren and discussing their differing perspectives on God and purpose.

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