Christian Life: New Studies in Dogmatics
Autor Kelly M. Kapic Michael Allen, Scott R. Swainen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 dec 2025
What is Christian life? Although we often use this phrase, we rarely take the time to understand its theological basis. In this volume in Zondervan Academic's New Studies in Dogmatics series, theologian Kelly M. Kapic reflects on Christian life: its foundation, its nourishment, and its goal.
Kapic contends that Christian life is, first and foremost, one that is lived in response to the love of God. But to properly frame this love, Kapic contends we need to consider divine and human agency. What we discover is that not only did the triune God first love us, but the incarnate Son also first loved God for us. And now we respond to God’s love as those who have been united to Christ and his people by the Spirit. Shaped by the community of faith, especially through corporate worship, Christians thus participate in this love of God and neighbor. What is true of the whole discipline of theology is thus reflected in Christian life: Christ is its foundation, Christ is its source of nourishment, and Christ is its goal.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780310523581
ISBN-10: 0310523583
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Zondervan Academic
Colecția Zondervan Academic
Seria New Studies in Dogmatics
Locul publicării:Grand Rapids, United States
ISBN-10: 0310523583
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Zondervan Academic
Colecția Zondervan Academic
Seria New Studies in Dogmatics
Locul publicării:Grand Rapids, United States
Recenzii
At a time when Christian life, worship, and ecclesial identity are often reduced to polarized options, Kelly Kapic offers a theologically rich and pastorally grounded vision of communion with the triune God as the source, means, and end of life in Christ. Through Christ's prophetic, priestly, and kingly work and the Spirit's enlivening presence, we are called to worship and to lives poured out in love for God, neighbor, and creation. Saturated with Scripture and drawing deeply from the wisdom of the historic Christian faith, this book is a beacon amid today's troubled waters--abounding in theological insight, pastoral clarity, and joy.
Christian existence is a response to God's love. Yet this response is also God's grace, led by Jesus himself and shaped in us by his Spirit. Our communion with God flows from our union with Christ. Against this backdrop, Kelly Kapic triangulates Christology, the individual, and the church community to situate the arc of Christian life in the worship of the totus Christus. This is a dogmatically serious treatise, brimming with insight. Kapic seamlessly joins depth and clarity, doctrine and doxology, to illuminate the liturgy of Christian living for all Christ's people. His book is a gift to both church and academy.
Courses in human flourishing attract hundreds of college students, but a good life is hard to find, much less define. Kelly Kapic sets forth a theological thesis that is as comprehensive as it is concise: The good life, for which men and women were created, is a God-centered life, a life that returns God's love for us by loving God and everything that God has created. Christian Life is chock full of biblical, historical, and doctrinal direction for wise living with and right worship of the triune God.
Gathering the jewels of scriptural teaching as well as a glittering array of sources across the centuries, Kapic gives us here a masterpiece. Deconstructing familiar dichotomies, this is the most edifying exploration of the Christian life I have seen in a long time. Let Kapic show you the riches of Christ for you and in his body, the church.
Kelly Kapic's book offers a rich and thought-provoking reflection on the foundations of Christian life, grounded in Scripture and in a capacious, generous, and ecumenical appropriation of Christian theological traditions.
Kelly Kapic's Christian Life lays out, as winsomely as finite words can convey, the enormity of the triune God's love for us and our invitation to respond. How wonderfully fitting, then, that a book about the whole of Christian life being an act of worship would draw readers to that same end.
One of the most pressing tasks for Christians of every generation is to articulate the tangible difference Christ makes to our lives. Kelly Kapic's Christian Life displays in dazzling detail the shape of Christian life as a response to what God has done and is doing in Christ, the Righteous One, who serves as both the object and leader of Christian worship. A work of a theologian par excellence operating at the height of his powers, you will find yourself comforted, convicted, and encouraged to pursue a life of communion with God rooted in our union with Christ. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
There is a temptation for works on humanity and the Christian life to focus on the negatives, such as our sin or fallenness--and these are certainly part of the story. However, in Kelly Kapic's volume on the Christian life, he gets to the root of it all: the love of God toward humanity. This book is a deeply biblical and soundly theological reflection on the triune God's love and how this love shapes Christian life and worship. Kapic's ability to move between theology and doxology is masterful and should be a model for others.
What a relief! We have long needed such an account of Christian life: resting in the threefold work of the triune God, responding to grace, reconciling law and gospel. This book is more than just the next clever theological program. Kapic is clever enough to know how to keep out of the way and let the big, central doctrines do the work.
What does it mean to be a Christian? The answer of Kelly Kapic is both simple and profound: Christian life is the grateful response to the love of the triune God and is anchored in the church as worshiping community. This theology has far-reaching implications, especially for modern evangelicals whose spirituality is often experience-centered and individualistic. But it is not just a book for evangelicals. Its balanced approach and ecumenical breadth would appeal to Christians of other traditions. This book is such a delight. Over and over I felt like shouting 'Amen and Amen.'
Christian existence is a response to God's love. Yet this response is also God's grace, led by Jesus himself and shaped in us by his Spirit. Our communion with God flows from our union with Christ. Against this backdrop, Kelly Kapic triangulates Christology, the individual, and the church community to situate the arc of Christian life in the worship of the totus Christus. This is a dogmatically serious treatise, brimming with insight. Kapic seamlessly joins depth and clarity, doctrine and doxology, to illuminate the liturgy of Christian living for all Christ's people. His book is a gift to both church and academy.
Courses in human flourishing attract hundreds of college students, but a good life is hard to find, much less define. Kelly Kapic sets forth a theological thesis that is as comprehensive as it is concise: The good life, for which men and women were created, is a God-centered life, a life that returns God's love for us by loving God and everything that God has created. Christian Life is chock full of biblical, historical, and doctrinal direction for wise living with and right worship of the triune God.
Gathering the jewels of scriptural teaching as well as a glittering array of sources across the centuries, Kapic gives us here a masterpiece. Deconstructing familiar dichotomies, this is the most edifying exploration of the Christian life I have seen in a long time. Let Kapic show you the riches of Christ for you and in his body, the church.
Kelly Kapic's book offers a rich and thought-provoking reflection on the foundations of Christian life, grounded in Scripture and in a capacious, generous, and ecumenical appropriation of Christian theological traditions.
Kelly Kapic's Christian Life lays out, as winsomely as finite words can convey, the enormity of the triune God's love for us and our invitation to respond. How wonderfully fitting, then, that a book about the whole of Christian life being an act of worship would draw readers to that same end.
One of the most pressing tasks for Christians of every generation is to articulate the tangible difference Christ makes to our lives. Kelly Kapic's Christian Life displays in dazzling detail the shape of Christian life as a response to what God has done and is doing in Christ, the Righteous One, who serves as both the object and leader of Christian worship. A work of a theologian par excellence operating at the height of his powers, you will find yourself comforted, convicted, and encouraged to pursue a life of communion with God rooted in our union with Christ. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
There is a temptation for works on humanity and the Christian life to focus on the negatives, such as our sin or fallenness--and these are certainly part of the story. However, in Kelly Kapic's volume on the Christian life, he gets to the root of it all: the love of God toward humanity. This book is a deeply biblical and soundly theological reflection on the triune God's love and how this love shapes Christian life and worship. Kapic's ability to move between theology and doxology is masterful and should be a model for others.
What a relief! We have long needed such an account of Christian life: resting in the threefold work of the triune God, responding to grace, reconciling law and gospel. This book is more than just the next clever theological program. Kapic is clever enough to know how to keep out of the way and let the big, central doctrines do the work.
What does it mean to be a Christian? The answer of Kelly Kapic is both simple and profound: Christian life is the grateful response to the love of the triune God and is anchored in the church as worshiping community. This theology has far-reaching implications, especially for modern evangelicals whose spirituality is often experience-centered and individualistic. But it is not just a book for evangelicals. Its balanced approach and ecumenical breadth would appeal to Christians of other traditions. This book is such a delight. Over and over I felt like shouting 'Amen and Amen.'
Descriere
A Dogmatic Exploration of the Christian Life
What is Christian life? Although we often use this phrase, we rarely take the time to understand its theological basis. In this volume in Zondervan Academic's New Studies in Dogmatics series, theologian Kelly M. Kapic reflects on Christian life: its foundation, its nourishment, and its goal.
Kapic contends that Christian life is, first and foremost, one that is lived in response to the love of God. But to properly frame this love, Kapic contends we need to consider divine and human agency. What we discover is that not only did the triune God first love us, but the incarnate Son also first loved God for us. And now we respond to God’s love as those who have been united to Christ and his people by the Spirit. Shaped by the community of faith, especially through corporate worship, Christians thus participate in this love of God and neighbor. What is true of the whole discipline of theology is thus reflected in Christian life: Christ is its foundation, Christ is its source of nourishment, and Christ is its goal.
What is Christian life? Although we often use this phrase, we rarely take the time to understand its theological basis. In this volume in Zondervan Academic's New Studies in Dogmatics series, theologian Kelly M. Kapic reflects on Christian life: its foundation, its nourishment, and its goal.
Kapic contends that Christian life is, first and foremost, one that is lived in response to the love of God. But to properly frame this love, Kapic contends we need to consider divine and human agency. What we discover is that not only did the triune God first love us, but the incarnate Son also first loved God for us. And now we respond to God’s love as those who have been united to Christ and his people by the Spirit. Shaped by the community of faith, especially through corporate worship, Christians thus participate in this love of God and neighbor. What is true of the whole discipline of theology is thus reflected in Christian life: Christ is its foundation, Christ is its source of nourishment, and Christ is its goal.