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Follow Me - A History of Christian Intentionality (Paperback, New)
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From the very beginning some Christians have wanted to go all the
way - rather than asking, "What must I do to be a Christian?" have
asked instead, "What can I do to be more Christian?" These highly
intentional Christians have had an impact on the development of
both Christianity and western civilization that has been completely
out of proportion to their numbers. Their greatest impact has come
through communities of like-minded believers - whether of lay
evangelicals or of celibate monastics - formed upon a common desire
to live more intentional Christian lives. This probing work tells
the story of these communities, both monastic and lay. It is a
story that, though often overlooked, is both inspiring and
instructive. Above all it is a story that opens the way for greater
understanding between two groups of Christians who have long been
estranged - Protestant evangelicals and Catholic monastics.
"Evangelicals are often accused of being ahistorical because we
jump from Paul to Martin Luther without a pause to consider what
the Spirit did in between. But every Christian tradition nds some
way to draw the line from Jesus to the present. How we tell that
story shapes who we are. 'Follow Me' tells the Christian story in a
way that sparks my imagination and gets me excited about who the
church is becoming in our post-Christian era. I hope every
community of disciples will read it and ask, 'How is God calling us
to live the next chapter?' " - Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of
'To Baghdad and Beyond: How I Got Born Again in Babylon' "Kauffman
offers us a rst instalment of the kind of scholarship becoming
possible thanks to the stereoscopic perspective of those who are
learning to live on both sides of a great river that has long
divided Christianity. . . . Unexpected though the news may be, it
is the very burden of Kauffman's book to show us why we should not
have been surprised, and would not be surprised if we read the
history of Christianity looking for its broadest unifying patterns
rather than for the basis of our separate identities. . . . He has
done a service to historian, ecumenist, and renewal-minded
Christian alike by looking for the forest not just the trees,
surveying the lay of the land, and marking the river that gives it
life." - Gerald W. Schlabach, author of 'Just Policing, Not War: An
Alternative Response to World Violence' Ivan J. Kauffman grew up in
one of the oldest surviving lay evangelical communities, the Amish
Mennonites. Educated as both a Mennonite and a Catholic he has been
active in Mennonite-Catholic dialogues from their beginnings in the
1980s, and was a founder of the North American grassroots Mennonite
Catholic dialogue, Bridgefolk. He identi es himself as a Mennonite
Catholic.
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