Learning Jesus
- Theology
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2021
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Publisher's Description
Some Christians are satisfied with an "Arrived Jesus," a Jesus who had fully arrived at the moment of his birth in Bethlehem. He had nothing to learn, nothing to discover, no choices to make, and no place to go except to follow God's tight script for his life. His life was static. Yet, other Christians believe in a "Becoming Jesus," a Jesus who faced many crossroads and decision points, struggles and crises, all of which shaped his faithful response to God. This "Learning Jesus" was born into a world of stereotypes and bias and he, like others, had to overcome these human boundaries in order to become the Savior of the world. Jesus was an imaginative learner and an inspiring teacher. Like all human beings, he was a human becoming.
Endorsements (4)
“Jesus grew as a learner. . . . The twenty-seven selected narratives of Learning Jesus give us compelling insight to support this growth aspect of Jesus’s earthly life. These stories challenge our traditional thinking of Jesus as having ‘arrived.’ Jesus, the learner, seeks to enter our personal stories as we travel with him within us. . . . Jones presents his readers with a fresh challenge to reconsider what following Jesus really means.”
“Even thoroughly secular people reverence Jesus, the great teacher. But, asks Jones, was Jesus also a learner? . . . Jones dares to imagine this living and learning from Jesus’s own point of view. This strikingly original book takes the humanity of Jesus Christ—our common humanity—with utter seriousness, but at the same time displays a deft and winsome touch.”
“Jones offers us an image of Jesus as a learner that invites us to see our own journey as a Christian as that of a learner open to the dynamic nature of God’s Spirit calling us to new understandings, new visions, and new life. It is a call to the church to become a community of learners who walk in the way of Jesus.”
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