Imitating Jesus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imitating Jesus write by Richard A. Burridge. This book was released on 2007-10-22. Imitating Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In contrast to many studies of New Testament ethics, which treat the New Testament in general and Paul in particular, this book focuses on the person of Jesus himself. Richard Burridge maintains that imitating Jesus means following both his words -- which are very demanding ethical teachings -- and his deeds and example of being inclusive and accepting of everyone. Burridge carefully and systematically traces that combination of rigorous ethical instruction and inclusive community through the letters of Paul and the four Gospels, treating specific ethical issues pertaining to each part of Scripture. The book culminates with a chapter on apartheid as an ethical challenge to reading the New Testament; using South Africa as a contemporary case study enables Burridge to highlight and further apply his previous discussion and conclusions.
Imitating God in Christ
Imitating God in Christ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imitating God in Christ write by Jason B. Hood. This book was released on 2013-03-07. Imitating God in Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At a time when the call to imitate Jesus comes loaded with moralistic overtones, Jason Hood offers a refreshing look at imitation on the Bible's terms. Drawing our attention to the practice that Paul taught "everywhere in every church," Hood's study yields insights into Scripture, the church fathers and Christian culture.
Imitating Christ
Imitating Christ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imitating Christ write by R.T. Kendall. This book was released on 2015-01-26. Imitating Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIV Being a humble Christian does not make you a wimp---it makes you powerful! R. T. Kendall wants you to understand that out of that meekness comes majesty and success. /div
Imitating Christ
Imitating Christ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imitating Christ write by Luke Timothy Johnson. This book was released on 2024-08-06. Imitating Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Imitation of Christ
The Imitation of Christ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Imitation of Christ write by Thomas A. Kempis. This book was released on 2000-11-21. The Imitation of Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Imitation of Christ is the work of at least three men: Gerard Groote, Florent Radewijns, and Thomas a Kempis. The first two were founders of the Brethren of the Common Life, a lay religious society that flourished in the Netherlands from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Working on their manuscripts, first as a compiler and editor and then as a coauthor, was Kempis. So successful were Kempis's efforts that the work became the golden treasury not only of their community but also of the contemporary spirituality movement known as the Modern Devotion. Its prescriptions might very well be known as the Perennial Devotion for its continual appeal through the centuries. In its fifteenth century Latin original the Imitation was not a silken cord of consecutive prose. Rather it was a series of scratchings, the sort that a spiritual director would note down in preparation for sermons and addresses. What wasn't always in the original was exactly how Kempis developed each topic sentence or wisdom quotation as he delivered it. In this new rendition William Griffin recovers the original experience of listening to Kempis as he taught and preached to his spiritual charges. Using a variety of literary and historical means, Griffin enhances the original, making the insights of this seminal exposition of Christian life more accessible.
