A Thicker Jesus

Why have some Christians, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King Jr., been able to speak truth to power at great personal cost, while others readily capitulate to injustice? In this magnum opus, Christian ethicist Glen Stassen argues that such robust Christianity stems from believing in a thicker Jesus, who is Lord over the whole of life and not just one compartment of it. Belief in this thicker Jesus results in incarnational discipleship and can help Christians deal with the challenges of what Charles Taylor has identified as a secular age. Stassen elegantly weaves the characteristics of incarnational discipleship as correctives to secularism.

Author: Glen Harold Stassen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 10/25/2012
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.12w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780664238179

Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 12/12/2012 pg. 21

About the Author
Stassen, Glen Harold: - Glen H. Stassen is the Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His book Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context, with David Gushee, received Christianity Today's Award for Best Book of 2004 in Theology or Ethics. He is also the author of Living the Sermon on the Mount, Just Peacemaking, and other books.