Joyful exiles : life in Christ on the dangerous edge of things
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Joyful exiles : life in Christ on the dangerous edge of things
IVP Books, c2006
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Includes index
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Winner, 2007 World Guild Best Leadership/Theoretical Book
Pastor and teacher Jim Houston reviews the insights he has gained over his years of teaching, counseling and mentoring Christians. He passes on what he has come to regard as pivotal concerns for leading a faithful Christian life in current society and culture. This is an advanced discipleship book for those who want to learn from someone with mature spiritual insight who has gone before them. If you are interested in Christian maturity, faithfulness, spiritual formation, and life, and want a guide through the "currents and eddies" of our society and culture, this book is for you.
Table of Contents
Preface
Prologue: Why Dialectics?
Part One: Christian Faith as a Way of Life and a New Identity
1. The Breath of the Hidden Life
2. Being Open to a Visionary Life Before God
Part Two: The Priority of Personal Calling Over Institutional Life
3. The Surrealism of Christian Public Life
4. The Journey Towards Becoming a Person
Part Three: Maturing in Community, Transmitting Faith In Person
5. Living the Truth in Love
6. Christian Transmission in an Age of Disjunction
Epilogue: Communal Maturity in Christ
Appendix: Why the Rhetoric of Dialectics?
Notes
Index
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