Imitating Christ: The Disputed Character of Christian Discipleship - Hardcover

Johnson, Luke Timothy

 
9780802883100: Imitating Christ: The Disputed Character of Christian Discipleship
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0802883109 ISBN 13: 9780802883100
Verlag: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Is discipleship about personal sanctification or social reform?

Believers are divided on a question central to Christian identity: what does it mean to follow Jesus? For centuries, imitating Christ meant the pursuit of holiness, conforming the self to Jesus through self-sacrifice in order to join him in eternal life. But some Christians today consider this model to be self-centered. Instead, they say, true disciples ought to imitate Jesus in confronting corrupt social systems on behalf of the oppressed.

In Imitating Christ,esteemed New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson seeks the origin of this fissure. Surveying the New Testament, medieval mysticism, modern theology, and more, Johnson shows how twentieth-century social-gospel and liberation theologies created a new model of discipleship. He then evaluates the theological implications of the two models and asks what we can learn from each. Inspired by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Thomas Merton, Johnson puts forward a vision of discipleship that can revitalize Christian witness in the world today.

Replete with keen exegesis and spiritual insight, Imitating Christ reorients Christian living toward pursuing sainthood. Pastors and interested lay readers alike will rediscover a rich heritage in these pages.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Luke Timothy Johnson is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Christian Origins at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. He won the 2011 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his?Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity. Johnson’s many other books include?The Revelatory Body; Brother of Jesus, Friend of God; The Writings of the New Testament; and the two-volume work?The Canonical Paul.

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Verlag
William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802883109
ISBN 13 
9780802883100
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Anzahl der Seiten
220
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