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Spiritual Practices of Jesus - Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke`s Earliest Readers (Paperback)
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Spiritual Practices of Jesus - Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke`s Earliest Readers (Paperback)
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Luke's Gospel was written to transform. In its original context,
readers would have seen a portrait of Jesus as an ideal teacher and
king, able to shape his people through exemplary leadership. They
would have come to the Gospel expecting to be changed for God's
purposes through the imitation of Jesus' lifestyle and adoption of
his teaching. When today's readers approach the text in the same
way, they can be transformed too. Spiritual Practices of Jesus
explores Luke's portrait of the spirituality of Jesus, focusing on
the themes of simplicity, humility, and prayer in his life and
teaching. After establishing the likely thought patterns of Luke's
first readers, Catherine Wright considers how Jesus models these
three values and then explores how different readers have
understood and employed key Lukan passages for spiritual formation,
beginning with a first-century audience and tracing the reception
of these texts in the ancient church. Demonstrating a theological
interpretation of Jesus' spirituality grounded in church tradition,
this accessible book combines New Testament studies and spiritual
formation to provide fresh insight into the biblical text. Wright
invites readers to join with Luke's earliest readers in adopting
ancient spiritual practices that still hold the potential to
revolutionize our relationships with money, ourselves, others, and
God. Luke's Gospel reveals that as we individually and corporately
imitate Jesus, we live lives of greater authenticity, are oriented
toward his kingdom, and are transformed by his manner of life.
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