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13 - Jesus in Christian Discipleship and Ethics

from Part III - Ethics, Theology, and Critical Scholarship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2024

By
Rebekah Eklund
Edited by
Markus Bockmuehl
Markus Bockmuehl
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

This chapter considers five practices, or constellations of practices, that emerge from imitating Jesus: (1) care for the poor and needy, including the contested practice of seeing Christ in the poor; (2) sacramental practices of the Lord’s Supper and baptism; (3) prayer, including lament; (4) forgiveness, reconciliation, and peacemaking; and (5) self-giving or kenōsis. Each practice flows in its own way from the twin imperatives to love God and the neighbor.

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discipleshipalmsgivingforgivenesspeacebuildingself-giving
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The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus , pp. 217 - 231
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Coakley, Sarah. 1996. “Kenosis and Subversion: On the Repression of ‘Vulnerability’ in Christian Feminist Writing.” In Swallowing a Fishbone? Feminist Theologians Debate Christianity, edited by Hampson, Daphne, 82–111. London: SPCK.Google Scholar
Coakley, Sarah. 2008. “The Identity of the Risen Jesus: Finding Jesus Christ in the Poor.” In Seeking the Identity of Jesus: A Pilgrimage, edited by Gaventa, Beverly Roberts and Hays, Richard B., 301–22. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.Google Scholar
Eiesland, Nancy L. 1994. The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability. Nashville: Abingdon Press.Google Scholar
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Gorman, Michael J. 2021. Cruciformity: Paul’s Narrative Spirituality of the Cross, 20th anniversary ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.Google Scholar
Oduyoye, Mercy Amba. 2010. “Jesus Christ.” In Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women’s Theology, edited by Pui-lan, Kwok, 167–85. Maryknoll: Orbis Books.Google Scholar
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Sobrino, Jon. 1994. Principle of Mercy: Taking the Crucified People from the Cross. Maryknoll: Orbis.Google Scholar
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Verhey, Allen. 2002. Remembering Jesus: Christian Community, Scripture, and the Moral Life. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.Google Scholar
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