Progressive Christianity defined

• The Bible is Christian sacred scripture and the most important book there is, even though it is neither inerrant nor to be interpreted literally.
• Salvation is primarily about transformation in this life, of ourselves and the world
• The biblical understanding of the human predicament is much richer and more comprehensive the conservative and conventional Christianity – we live in Egypt, in bondage to Pharaoh and need liberation. … We are blind, diseased, wounded, dead in the midst of life, and our need is seeing again, healing, and rebirth.
• Jesus is the centre if Christianity… he reveals God’s character and passion but his purpose was not to pay for our sins.
• Believing does not mean believing statements about God, the Bible and Jesus to be true, even when they seem questionable but is better conveyed in the word “beloving”
• Christianity is about “the way” but this does not mean it is the only and exclusive way – it is also known in other enduring religions. Jesus is the incarnation of a universal way.

These points are elaborated upon in following chapters. It is claimed that Progressive Christianity has growing institutional strength in mainline Protestant denominations and thus, whether thy know it or not, Christians who belong to mainline Protestant denominations are implicitly even if not explicitly part of Progressive Christianity.