Restorative Christ: Jesus, Justice, and Discipleship

An examination, combining scholarship, insight and practical experience, of the modern significance of restorative justice embodied in Jesus's life and death.

The conviction that Jesus is the restorative Christ demands a commitment to the justice he articulated. The justice of the restorative Christ is justice with reconciliation, justice with repentance, justice with repair, and justice without retaliation. The Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts portray the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ through the radical concept of "enemy-love." In conversation with Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Jesus-for-others), John Howard Yoder (a nonviolent Jesus), Miroslav Volf (an embracing Jesus), and Chris Marshall (a compassionate Jesus), Broughton demonstrates what the restorative Christ means for us today. Following the restorative Christ faithfully involves imaginative disciplines (seeing, remembering, and desiring), conversational disciplines (naming, questioning, and forgiving), and embodied disciplines (absorbing, repairing, and embracing).

Geoff Broughton is Deputy Director of St Mark’s National Theological Centre and Lecturer in Practical Theology, Charles Sturt University, Australia. He is an Anglican priest in the inner-city of Sydney.