Justice and the Way of Jesus (Paperback)

This edited volume will offer a rich engagement with the theological ethics of Glen Stassen (1936-2014). Eighteen Christian theologians and ethicists, mainly of senior status, will particularly engage Stassen’s last major theological-ethical proposal, encapsulated in his term “incarnational discipleship.” By this term, Stassen intended a statement of the central norm or framework for Christian ethics grounded in the holistic sovereignty of God over all of life, the Lordship of a thick, historical, incarnate, realistic Jesus, and a Holy Spirit who frees believers from any ideological captivities that block our obedience to our Sovereign God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Stassen thought he had arrived at such a pivotal insight that he hoped it would catch on and become a major concept across the discipline, something like Christian realism, liberation ethics, or narrative ethics. However, he died before he had the opportunity to do more than propose the concept.

David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. He has served as president of both the American Academy of Religion and Society of Christian Ethics and is author or editor of 24 books, including Moral Leadership for a Divided Age and Kingdom Ethics.

Reggie L. Williams is associate professor of Christian Ethics at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. He is the author of Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance.