Donald A. Crosby's Faith and Freedom: Contexts, Choices, and Crises in Religious Commitments is published in the Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies series.
Crosby's book, however, does not belong in this series. The fact that it is published in this series may mislead readers’ expectations. The series is an academic series; this book is mostly intellectual autobiography or memoir. Crosby says as much in the first footnote of the book: “This is not a book in which scholarly claims and counterclaims are constantly exchanged with highly regarded contemporary academic writers. I develop a position that relates to a variety of interreligious claims, positions, and arguments, and I do so as articulation and defense of a point of view at which I have arrived at over long years of thought” (xiii). Having this book published in this series misleads readers, but this footnote clarifies and cleans...
