The Adventure of Discipleship

Jesus tells us that to be his disciple we must surrender everything and, with his grace, brave the path provided for us by God. Such a sojourn will surely be marked by joy, suffering, uncertainty, and above all adventure.

Accordingly, The Adventure of Discipleship presents the Gospel through the lens of great adventure stories from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia to popular adventure movies, comic book superheroes, and TV series. While these stories we create and read and retell are but reflections and refractions of the great adventure of discipleship, they provide us with genuine insight into life with Christ.

Author Daniel Keating shows why we must respond to the call of discipleship with venturesome faith, as many great saints have before us. Along the way of discipleship, we come to understand the cost of following Jesus, the importance of hope in light of setbacks, and the gift of true friendship in this great adventure.

Daniel Keating is Professor of Theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan, where he teaches on Scripture, the Church Fathers, Ecumenism, and the New Evangelization. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University and is the author of The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria (Oxford, 2004), Deification and Grace (Sapientia, 2007), First and Second Peter, Jude (Baker, 2011), and co-author of James, 1-3 John (Baker, 2017) and Athanasius and His Legacy (Fortress, 2017). Dr. Keating has been involved in student ministry for over thirty years and regularly lectures to students in the United States and Europe. He has also served as a theological consultant for the Doctrine Committee of the United States Catholic Bishop's Conference (USCCB) and is a Catholic participant in the national Catholic-Evangelical dialogue.