Flourishing in Tensions
Embracing Radical Discipleship
- Christian Living
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
Following Jesus Christ presents unique challenges to disciples today. In our current climate of relativism, materialism, and consumerism, Christians are increasingly perplexed as to who they are and what following after Christ means today. Drawing on the Protestant tradition (in particular, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther, and Adolf Schlatter) and findings from psychology, this book offers a fresh integrative interpretation of Jesus's radical call into discipleship. This call is interpreted through a christological lens, as Jesus Christ in his role as Prophet calls us to self-denial, in his role as Priest invites us to cross-bearing, and as King demands us to follow him. Jesus's call to discipleship challenges disciples to embrace various tensions by faith and to grow and even flourish in and through them. By denying themselves, they find their true self; by taking up their cross, they find real life; and by following Christ, they find the great friend and befriend the world as the community of disciples. This book is for Christians who seek to mature in intentional self-reflection and discover practical ways of living out Christ's radical call into discipleship today.
Endorsements (3)
“This book offers a rare combination of intellectual sophistication, theological depth, biblical understanding, and practical awareness. Books on discipleship can be facile, faddish, or quirky. This one stands out as clear, compelling, and true to Christ’s call to follow him. The author writes, sometimes painfully, from within the torque of the relationship to God he seeks to expedite. I don’t recall ever reading a better book on this subject. It will become a go-to personal and classroom resource.”
“This book combines the best of German (Bonhoeffer, Schlatter, and Luther in particular) and English-speaking (not least Australian) Evangelical theology and psychology. It wears classical Christian education lightly, all the better to probe, evaluate, and often find wanting the trends of unhelpful, narcissistic thinking in world and church today.”
“This book provides a wonderful primer in contemporary discipleship—scripturally engaged, theologically informed, and utterly relevant. Bräutigam invites the reader to reflect afresh upon the deep complexities of the Christian life in the present world, and challenges us to embrace them fully and to be transformed radically. This is work that will appeal to mind and heart, and deserves to be widely read.”
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