The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the WayA way of sacrifice. A way of failure. A way on the margins. A way of holiness. All of these ways prepared the "way of the Lord" that became incarnate and complete in Jesus. But somewhere along the line, have we lost the way? In The Jesus Way Eugene Peterson continues his conversation in spiritual theology, considering all the ways that Jesus is the Way compared to the distorted ways the American church today has chosen to follow. BJ Arguing that the way Jesus leads and the way we follow are symbiotic, Peterson begins with a study of how the ways of those who came before Christ - Abraham, Moses, David, Elijah, Isaiah of Jerusalem, and Isaiah of the Exile - revealed and prepared the "way of the Lord" that became complete in Jesus. He then challenges the ways of the contemporary American church, showing in stark relief how what we have chosen to focus on - consumerism, celebrity, charisma, and so forth - obliterates what is unique in the Jesus way. |
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User Review - GiniB - Christianbook.comI picked up this book as a bargain deal here. Best bargain I've ever gotten. The chapters related to Elijah and Isaiah are worth full price or more. Buy this book. Read this book. You will not be disappointed. Read full review
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It's a joy to hear again from Eugene Peterson, who is not only an important theological voice, but the best writer in the contemporary church. In this book he defines the way of Jesus biblically ... Read full review
Contents
And He Touched My Mouth | 135 |
Holy God and Holy Stump | 138 |
The NonNegotiable Holy | 147 |
Isaiah of the Exile How Beautiful on the Mountains | 149 |
Exile | 150 |
Your God | 160 |
My Servant | 170 |
Beauty | 181 |
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The Narrative | 82 |
The Prayers | 88 |
Elijah Hide Yourself by the Brook Cherith | 101 |
Ahab | 104 |
The Widow | 107 |
Baal | 109 |
Yahweh | 113 |
Naboth | 119 |
Ahaziah | 122 |
Isaiah of Jerusalem The Holy | 127 |
In the Year That King Uzziah Died | 129 |
I Saw the Lord Sitting upon a Throne | 132 |
Midian and Patmos | 133 |
OTHER WAYS | 191 |
The Way of Herod | 197 |
Jesus and Herod | 201 |
The Pharisees | 206 |
Jesus and the Pharisees | 212 |
Praying on the Way with Mary | 216 |
The Way of Caiaphas | 220 |
Jesus and Caiaphas | 229 |
The Essenes | 233 |
Jesus and the Essenes | 239 |
Praying on the Way with Thomas | 240 |
The Way of Josephus | 243 |
Jesus and Josephus | 252 |
The Zealots | 255 |
Jesus and the Zealots | 260 |
Praying on the Way with the Resurrection Christians | 264 |
Some Writers on Discerning the Way | 272 |
Index of Subjects and Names | 277 |
Index of Scripture References | 285 |
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Popular passages
Page 219 - ... as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Page 56 - What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Page 58 - No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.
Page 226 - Profaneness in my head, Defects and darkness in my breast, A noise of passions ringing me for dead Unto a place where is no rest : Poor Priest thus am I drest.
Page 92 - Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD" — and you forgave the guilt of my sin.
Page 151 - How lonely sits the city [that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she that was great among the nations!
Page 7 - For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
Page 90 - I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
Page 136 - For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. "Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way |
| Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
| Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2007 |
| ISBN | 080282949X, 9780802829498 |
| Length | 289 pages |
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