John B. Cobb, Jr.
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"Bringing Jesus back from heaven to earth is one of the perennial challenges of Christianity, as life has to be lived in the increasingly complex here and now. In this book, John Cobb tackles this challenge by bundling the theological, philosophical, and ecological trajectories of his life’s work in unique ways that call to be engaged by contemporary theology and people of faith."
~Joerg Rieger, Distinguished Professor of Theology and Cal Turner Chancellor’s Chair in Wesleyan Studies, Vanderbilt University
What would Jesus do? This is an old question that Christians of each successive generation have had to pose anew if they want to be faithful disciples. In other words, what does it mean to be a follower of Jesus today? A simple answer that has served Christians for centuries is to do as he did. To turn that simple prescription into a plan for living, many have turned the socio-economic emphasis discerned in the gospels into a contemporary ethic of justice. Less discernable, however, has been the political reality of Jesus’s teaching and the existential stakes behind it.
In this book, Cobb argues that Jesus’s mission was to save his people from their bent toward a violent, military-style attempt to overthrow their Roman occupiers. Jesus believed this attempt would be self-destructive, so his mission was to teach the way of nonviolence. Saving his people from Rome and from themselves was the most inclusive mission possible at that time. To follow Jesus today is to adopt the most inclusive mission of our day. That is, our mission must be to save the world from its self-destructive path to climate chaos and to establish instead an ecological civilization. The existential stakes have never been higher.
- Series: Theological Explorations
- Paperback: 164 pages
- Price: $20.00
- ISBN-13: 978-1-940447-46-9
Table of Contents
- Jesus's Understanding of "Salvation"
- "Salvation" in Christian History
- Christianity as a Historical Faith
- The Fading of Historical Consciousness
- So, What Is Our Mission Now?
- What Is Ecological Civilization?
- Communities of Communities
- Ecological Economics
- Prospects for Ecological Civilization in the United States
- The Deconstruction of Obstacles
- Deconstructing American Self-Understanding
- How Ecological Civilization is Possible
- Can God Help?
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