The Resurrection and Discipleship as Radical Commitments to Justice, Peace and Compassionate Service.

P1000793The final sentences from the very well argued book by Thorwald Lorenzen. Of the half dozen or so volumes I have on the resurrection, Lorenzen argues the most insistent and consistent case that the resurrection of Jesus is transformative at the levels of radical commitments to justice, peace and compassionate service of a still broken world.
 
"Neither individual piety nor worship liturgies nor doctrinal orthodoxy, but the concrete following of Jesus in our everyday lives, is the most adequate way of responding to the resurrection of the crucified Christ.
 
By retrieving some theological emphases from the nonviolent Anabaptists of the sixteenth century and by acknowledging modern hermeneutical discussions on a theology of witness, I have suggested that the believer and the believing community are part of the resurrection reality — without removing the procedural priority of Christ."  Page 169.
 
The resurrection of the crucified Christ calls for a life of faith in which Jesus' passion for God and therefore for justice is echoed."

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