Tag: Discipleship

Eighth-Day Discipleship A New Vision for Faith, Work, and Economics


Free Download Richard H. Bliese, "Eighth-Day Discipleship: A New Vision for Faith, Work, and Economics"
English | ISBN: 1506478832 | 2022 | 200 pages | PDF | 1525 KB
Richard H. Bliese draws on historic architecture of eight-sided churches to call attention to an important but often overlooked emphasis on the eighth day of creation. Early Christians were focused on God’s new creation that began in Christ’s resurrection on Sunday, the first day of the week. But these Christians understood resurrection as the continuation of God’s creative and redemptive activity. So the first day of the week became the eighth day of creation, and therefore the day of resurrection work and time to join with Christ in transforming the world. Christian disciples do this work by living out their baptismal vocations, especially in their daily work and through their ethical economic choices.

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Discipleship and Unity Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology


Free Download Cole Jodon, "Discipleship and Unity: Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology"
English | ISBN: 1978711948 | 2022 | 200 pages | EPUB, PDF | 585 KB + 3 MB
Discipleship and Unity: Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology presents a fresh approach to church unity and discipleship from a familiar voice. Building constructively from the thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cole Jodon offers an account of ecumenism in which the church is understood to be united as the person of Christ – a unity that is concrete today through active obedient discipleship. To develop this theology, Jodon draws from Bonhoeffer’s ecumenical engagement, which is deepened through the theology of Bonhoeffer’s wider corpus. Jodon illumines Bonhoeffer’s dynamic understanding of the church, its unity, and the manner in which that unity is made concrete in the world. At its heart, this book serves to advance an ecumenical theology enlivened by the living and present Christ who calls his church to follow after him together.

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