- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (19 April 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340863927
- ISBN-13: 978-0340863923
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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'From his profound scholarship and spiritual wisdom, Eugene Peterson helps us see the stark simplicity and necessity of adopting the way in which Jesus is - not just selecting a few words or deeds from him and calling ourselves "Christians", but finding an inner oneness with him in kingdom living that pushes away all the bright ideas and traditional 'wisdoms' about how we can get things done for Jesus without being like him.' (Dallas Willard )
Rich, generous and wise, Peterson's "conversation" will help readers at every stage of faith to live their faith more deeply. (Publishers Weekly (for Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places) )
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places is a book for all places, for all times, for all peoples and for all situations, however tragic and hopefless they may seem to be. (Gerard Hughes (for Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places) )
Eugene Peterson knows how to share Biblical and theological insights in ways that both inform and excite his readers, and in this work he excels even his own high standards. (John Drane (for Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places) )
There is no pastor in the world that I trust more than Eugene Peterson, and this book offers us Eugene at his best -- poet, storyteller, wonderer, biblical scholar, sage, practiced disciple, and lover of God. This is a life-transforming and liberating book. (Marva Dawn (for Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places) )
Rich, generous and wise, Peterson's "conversation" will help readers at every stage of faith to live their faith more deeply. (Publishers Weekly (for Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places) )
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places is a book for all places, for all times, for all peoples and for all situations, however tragic and hopefless they may seem to be. (Gerard Hughes (for Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places) )
Eugene Peterson knows how to share Biblical and theological insights in ways that both inform and excite his readers, and in this work he excels even his own high standards. (John Drane (for Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places) )
There is no pastor in the world that I trust more than Eugene Peterson, and this book offers us Eugene at his best -- poet, storyteller, wonderer, biblical scholar, sage, practiced disciple, and lover of God. This is a life-transforming and liberating book. (Marva Dawn (for Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places) )
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Book three of Eugene Peterson's landmark Spiritual Theology series. Foundational reading for the Twenty-First Century Church.
Continuing Peterson's major evaluation of contemporary Christian spirituality, The Jesus Way asks what it means to authentically follow Christ in the modern world.
As with other books in the series, The Jesus Way is written for both academic and serious lay audiences. Challenging but rewarding, it combines first-rate scholarship with illustrations drawn from raw human experience.
Continuing Peterson's major evaluation of contemporary Christian spirituality, The Jesus Way asks what it means to authentically follow Christ in the modern world.
As with other books in the series, The Jesus Way is written for both academic and serious lay audiences. Challenging but rewarding, it combines first-rate scholarship with illustrations drawn from raw human experience.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Any book by a Christian author that contains the following paragraph must be taken with the utmost seriousness;
"Our faith, all faith, everyone's faith, needs testing. And we cannot be trusted to test ourselves. We are too full of self-interest and self-deceit. We are too devious in devising ways of cooking the books to document the evidence that serves our illusions. When we look at the track record of priests and temples, pastors and churches, missionaries and missions, it is obvious that religion in all its forms, including most emphatically Christianity, is a perpetual breeding ground for violence, abuse, superstition, war, discrimination, tyranny, and pride. Religion and spirituality is a bottomless pit breeding illusion, deceit and oppression..."
Not surprisingly, this is a thought provoking book, well written and challenging on every turn of the page. It is essentially about what Jesus meant when he told us that he is "The Way" and that we should follow him.
The book opens by asking us to consider the modern "ways and means" by which we usually get things done. How we often embrace, even in our spiritual journey, the political, business and social practices that Jesus consistently rejected. For Jesus, the means of getting things done was through the messy business of engaging on a personal level with everyone he encountered.
Peterson then takes us through several Old Testament characters (Abraham, Moses, David, Elijah and Isaiah) and demonstrates how they were each diligently laying the foundations of The Way which eventually would be personified in Jesus. We examine episodes from these great lives and learn how they managed to discern the manner in which God sought to engage with his people. The lessons are fresh and full of significance for our own lives. The dangers of making God in the image of man by seeking a "worship experience" that simply serves our own desires for self-expression. Or, the pitfall of thinking that we can attain perfection simply by redoubling our efforts to be good, quite apart from what Jesus achieved for us on the cross. We understand that there are many appealing short-cuts that look attractive as we travel along The Way.
Attention is then turned to some New Testament characters (Herod, Caiaphas and the Jewish Historian Josephus) who demonstrate alternatives to Jesus. Their methods are successful on the world's terms. People become things to be manipulated in the name of the ultimate goal.
If you want a book to help you think about how to live with integrity then this if probably for you. It makes for an exhilarating read where the brute force of the challenge quickly makes way for a deep yearning to get back on The Way.
"Our faith, all faith, everyone's faith, needs testing. And we cannot be trusted to test ourselves. We are too full of self-interest and self-deceit. We are too devious in devising ways of cooking the books to document the evidence that serves our illusions. When we look at the track record of priests and temples, pastors and churches, missionaries and missions, it is obvious that religion in all its forms, including most emphatically Christianity, is a perpetual breeding ground for violence, abuse, superstition, war, discrimination, tyranny, and pride. Religion and spirituality is a bottomless pit breeding illusion, deceit and oppression..."
Not surprisingly, this is a thought provoking book, well written and challenging on every turn of the page. It is essentially about what Jesus meant when he told us that he is "The Way" and that we should follow him.
The book opens by asking us to consider the modern "ways and means" by which we usually get things done. How we often embrace, even in our spiritual journey, the political, business and social practices that Jesus consistently rejected. For Jesus, the means of getting things done was through the messy business of engaging on a personal level with everyone he encountered.
Peterson then takes us through several Old Testament characters (Abraham, Moses, David, Elijah and Isaiah) and demonstrates how they were each diligently laying the foundations of The Way which eventually would be personified in Jesus. We examine episodes from these great lives and learn how they managed to discern the manner in which God sought to engage with his people. The lessons are fresh and full of significance for our own lives. The dangers of making God in the image of man by seeking a "worship experience" that simply serves our own desires for self-expression. Or, the pitfall of thinking that we can attain perfection simply by redoubling our efforts to be good, quite apart from what Jesus achieved for us on the cross. We understand that there are many appealing short-cuts that look attractive as we travel along The Way.
Attention is then turned to some New Testament characters (Herod, Caiaphas and the Jewish Historian Josephus) who demonstrate alternatives to Jesus. Their methods are successful on the world's terms. People become things to be manipulated in the name of the ultimate goal.
If you want a book to help you think about how to live with integrity then this if probably for you. It makes for an exhilarating read where the brute force of the challenge quickly makes way for a deep yearning to get back on The Way.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An excellent book again from the pen of Eugene Peterson. He is masterful in seeing the bigger picture of Scriptures. It was a reminder too that God's men (and women) are only flesh and blood but with all the potential of walking through this world as His chosen. One little criticism! There was no mention of Daniel in the author's decription of the period of Israel's exile in Babylon and I'm not convinced of the 2 or 3 Isaiah theory. However this book is worth reading and re-reading.
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