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Who Will Roll Away the Stone? - Discipleship Queries for First World Christians (Paperback)
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Who Will Roll Away the Stone? - Discipleship Queries for First World Christians (Paperback)
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The author of the critically-acclaimed Binding the Strong Man
exposes the social and spiritual "stones" that impede us in our
development and growth as Christians. "In every age", writes Myers,
"disciples despair that the story has ended, only to discover that
the stone 'has been rolled away, ' reopening the possibility - and
imperative - of following the Way of Jesus". As a sequel to Binding
the Strong Man, Who Will Roll Away the Stone? brings Myers' study
of the gospel of Mark full circle. The first book provided a
compelling reading of Mark's gospel as a manual of radical
discipleship in the ancient Roman empire. Who Will Roll Away the
Stone? picks up and extends the gospel's challenge specifically to
those living in the contemporary imperial context. Each chapter
opens with classic questions from within the gospel itself.
Beginning with Peter's denial of Jesus, Who Will Roll Away the
Stone? shows how and why first-world Christians - politically free,
socially mobile, and resource-rich - seem typically unable or
unwilling to struggle for social change. Myers uses three of the
most troubling and problematic of recent events - the Los Angeles
riots, the Gulf War, the Columbus quincentennial - to demonstrate
how the subtle complexities of a culture of technological wizardy,
information overload, and short-term memory can be recognized as
blocking the first step on the journey of discipleship. Myers then
turns to the second stage of discipleship which is conversion,
literally a call to change direction both as individuals and as a
society. He continues with a "deconstruction" of the modus vivendi
of U.S. culture, using experiments in other ways of living,
including social relocation andnonviolent politics. He then moves
into the third stage of the call to discipleship, to reconstruct
the church and the world through positive action: building
solidarity with one another and with the poor, accepting and
celebrating diversity and its gifts, and reclaiming the discourse
of the reign of God from those who use it to defend the status quo.
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