The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2007 - 289 pages
A 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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Contents

TheWayofJesus
19
Climbing Mount Moriah
42
On the Plains of Moab
59
I Did Not Hide My Iniquity
78
Hide Yourself by the Brook Cherith
101
The Holy
127
How Beautiful on the Mountains
149
OtherWays
191
The Way of Herod
197
The Way of Caiaphas
220
The Way ofJosephus
243
Some Writers on Discerning the Way
272
index of scripture references
285
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