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Author Himes Brant M

Title For a Better Worldliness : Abraham Kuyper, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Discipleship for the Common Good. / Himes Brant M
Published Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, [2018]

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Contents Part 1. Abraham Kuyper's theology of discipleship: 1894-1905 -- Part 2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology of discipleship: 1935-1945 -- Part 3. Discipleship for a better worldliness
Summary For a Better Worldliness is not only a statement of Abraham Kuyper's and Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theological concept and historical practice of discipleship. It is also--and perhaps more importantly--a call to engage in the fullness of the Christian life here and now. While this book goes to great efforts to establish sound historical and theological insights specifically in regards to Kuyper and Bonhoeffer, there is a strong underlying current that these particular insights deeply matter to the life of discipleship in the world today. History shows us that discipleship is not a singular journey; because of Jesus Christ it is not a description of one set path with one set of guidelines. A disciple can be a prime minister who unabashedly and successfully campaigned on his Calvinistic principles, just as he can be a participant in a coup d'état launched against a tyrant, leading to the disciple's own imprisonment and death. Jesus Christ calls--whether to the height of political office, or to the dank prison cell, or (more likely for us) to somewhere in between. - Back cover
Subject Kuyper, Abraham, 1837-1920.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.
SUBJECT Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945 fast
Kuyper, Abraham, 1837-1920 fast
Subject Christian life.
Common good -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Public interest -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Christian life
Common good -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781532638473
1532638477