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Title: Mere Discipleship: Radical Christianity in a Rebellious World by Lee C. Camp ISBN: 1-58743-049-5 Publisher: Brazos Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Merely Biblical Discipleship Needed
Comment: Any good book that forces us to think about--rethink--the biblical concept of discipleship should be read. Mere Discipleship is such a book. Lee Camp has produced a serious book on Christian discipleship where his major premise is that the modern world, and in particular American life, has subverted the biblical concept of true discipleship. Granted Camp's perspective is hinged on his own Anabaptist church background, but his critique of how we apply Christianity today rings true--and at times, terrifyingly so. You're not going to agree with everything Camp presents. And at times he seems to choose some parts of Scripture over others (e.g., you can tell he likes the revelation of God in Christ as the peacemaker, but not the wrathful God of the OT that smote godless armies through Israel; he is partial to the passive Lamb of God, but not the table over-turning Jesus in the temple). Nonetheless, Camp is right--our church-life and concept of discipleship is tainted by our American-way of life. He attempts to help us decompartmentalize our faith, especially at the levels where our Christianity intersects with our public life. Although a bit on the intellectual side, still I highly recommend working through Camp's argument. Your commitment to discipleship will be enhanced and bettered as a result.
Rating: 5
Summary: Radically readable radical medicine
Comment: One of the beauties of this book is that it reminds us all that "radical christianity" is a somewhat redundant phrase if being Christian means being a follower of Jesus. Camp, with wit and ease, introduces us to the depth of our refusal to live the way of Jesus, yet also irenically points us to the attractive, bracing and winsome way of Jesus as a possible path for us as well.
If Oxford church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch is right that contemporary Christians are increasingly likely to look more like 16th Century Anabaptists than the other groups of that era, then truly Camp's book qualifies as a tract for the times far more than Lewis's _Mere Christianity_. Never before has the "baptist vision" or "believers' church vision" been stated in a way as complelling and available as this. However, having said this, it should also be noted that the author has not set out to render intelligible one branch of Christianity but rather to call the whole church to this path of mere discipleship to its Lord; a way which is radically catholic and always relevant.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mere Brilliance: Shaken and Stirred
Comment: The Christian book market is constantly flooded with material that leaves people neither shaken nor stirred; books that call us to nothing beyond our confined consumerist lifestyles of comfort and conformity. In the flood of mass-marketed easy answers, this little book, 'Mere Discipleship', trusts God enough to ask hard questions. In the flood of apologetics that are not well thought through, 'Mere Discipleship' is a book you don't feel you have to apologize for. In the flood of takes on Christianity that are remembered for power games rather than the empowerment of the marginalised; that are remembered for genocide rather than lifestyles of generosity; that are remembered for the violence of the State rather than the nonviolence of the crucified Christ, we might rightly feel embarrassed about our faith. Yet upon this ocean of despair floats this little faithful vessel, 'Mere Discipleship', that reminds us that, although we may be horrified by a history of Christianity that looks nothing like Christ, we need not be ashamed of the gospel. Amidst the waters of unthinking fundamentalism and unengaged liberalism, 'Mere Discipleship' is a lucid, intelligent yet simple read which has shaken, inspired and moved me to embody the teachings and life of Christ in my person and in my community--and to do so in Resurrection power.
Don't read it unless you are ready to hear the call, "follow me."
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Title: Myths America Lives by by Richard T. Hughes, Robert N. Bellah ISBN: 0252028600 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Hope Against Hope: Christian Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium by Richard Bauckham, Trevor Hart, Trevor A. Hart ISBN: 0802843913 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Pastor: The Theology and Practice of Ordained Ministry by William H. Willimon ISBN: 0687045320 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence by Stanley Hauerwas ISBN: 1587430762 Publisher: Brazos Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Must Christianity Be Violent?: Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology by Kenneth R. Chase, Alan Jacobs ISBN: 1587430649 Publisher: Brazos Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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