A thicker Jesus
Subtitle: incarnational discipleship in a secular age
By: by Glen H. Stassen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Louisville, KY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780664238179
Subjects: Christianity and culture; Secularism; Example; Christian ethics
Description: Why have some Christians, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King Jr., been able to speak truth to power at great personal cost, while others readily capitulate to injustice? In this magnum opus, Christian ethicist Glen Stassen argues that such robust Christianity stems from believing in a "thicker" Jesus, who is Lord over the whole of life and not just one compartment of it. Belief in this thicker Jesus results in "incarnational discipleship" and can help Christians deal with the challenges of what Charles Taylor has identified as a secular age. Stassen elegantly weaves the characteristics of incarnational discipleship as correctives to secularism.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Who stands the test of history?; title: The three dimensions of incarnational discipleship; title: Can incarnational discipleship answer the challenge of realism?; title: Can incarnational discipleship answer the challenges of a secular age?; title: Democracy: the tradition that gave birth to democracy and human rights; title: Science: the interactive nucleus; title: Individualism: the buffered self versus the age of interaction; title: Sin: a realistic understanding; title: The cross: compassionate presence and confrontation; title: Love: the Sermon on the mount as realistic deliverance; title: War: Jesus' initiatives and just peacemaking's initiatives; title: Conclusion: validating incarnational discipleship.