Author: Dallas Willard
Translator: Jong-seok Yoon
Publisher: Boginneunsaram
637 pages | 222*140mm
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About This Book
A renowned teacher and writer of the acclaimed The Spirit of the
Disciplines, Dallas Willard, one of today's most brilliant Christian
thinkers now offers a timely and challenging call back to the true
meaning of Christian discipleship. In The Divine Conspiracy, Willard
gracefully weaves biblical teaching, popular culture, science,
scholarship, and spiritual practice into a tour de force that shows the
necessity of profound changes in how we view our lives and faith. In an
era when many Christians consider Jesus a beloved but remote savior,
Willard argues compellingly for the relevance of God to every aspect of
our existence. Masterfully capturing the central insights of Christ's
teachings in a fresh way for today's seekers, he helps us to explore a
revolutionary way to experience God--by knowing Him as an essential part
of the here and now, rather than only as a part of the hereafter.
"The most telling thing about the contemporary Christian," Willard
writes, "is that he or she has no compelling sense that understanding of
and conformity with the clear teachings of Christ is of any vital
importance to [their] life, and certainly not that it is in any way
essential . . . Such obedience is regarded as just out of the question
or impossible." Christians, he says, for the most part consider the
primary function of Christianity to be admittance to heaven. But, as
Willard clearly shows, a faith that guarantees a satisfactory afterlife,
yet has absolutely no impact on life in the here and now, is nothing
more than "consumer Christianity" and "bumper-sticker faith."
Willard refutes this "fire escape" mentality by exploring the true
nature of the teachings of Jesus, who intended that His followers become
His disciples, and taught that we have access now to the life we are
only too eager to relegate to the hereafter. The author calls us into a
more authentic faith and offers a practical plan by which we can become
Christ-like. He challenges us to step aside from the politics and
pieties of contemporary Christian practice and inspires us to reject the
all too common lukewarm faith of our times by embracing the true meaning
of Christian discipleship.
A Powerful, Thought-Provoking Guide to Living the Life Jesus
Intends for Us
"My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among
those who believe they already understand him. Very few people today
find Jesus interesting as a person or of vital relevance to the course
of their actual lives. He is not generally regarded as a real life
personality who deals with real-life issues, but is thought to be
concerned with some feathery realm other than the one we must deal with,
and must deal with now."
"Actual discipleship or apprenticeship to Jesus is, in our day, no
longer thought of as in any way essential to faith in him. It is
regarded as a costly option, a spiritual luxury, or possibly even as an
evasion. Why bother with discipleship, it is widely thought, or, for
that matter, with a conversational relationship with God? Let us get on
with what we have to do."
"This book, then, presents discipleship to Jesus as the very heart of
the gospel. The eternal life that begins with confidence in Jesus is a
life in His present kingdom, now on earth and available to all. So the
message of and about him is specifically a gospel for our life now, not
just for dying. It is about living now as his apprentice in kingdom
living, not just as a consumer of his merits. Our future, however far we
look, is a natural extension of the faith by which we live now and the
life in which we now participate."
-- from The Divine Conspiracy
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