And Can It Be?

A child of Baptist fundamentalism joins a Marxist commune. A troubled young Biblical scholar founds a faith community in an old shoe-repair shop. A defrocked pastor finds a spiritual home in a counter- cultural house church. Can it be that these are all the same person? Paul Patterson has searched for the deeper, often paradoxical meanings behind everything from literature to psychology, challenging all forms of dogma in the search for an authentic orthodoxy. This collection, which will comfort the disillusioned and challenge the comfortable, compiles his selected writ- ings for the very first time. In a series of meditations at once contemplative, intellectual, and accessible, Paul Patterson invites readers to follow along on his evolving spiritual journey.