John Stott: A Portrait By His Friends - Hardcover

Wright, Christopher J H

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844745163 ISBN 13: 9781844745166

Publisher: IVP, 2011

Synopsis

Finding our best humanity in Jesus Christ is the key theme of Andrew Cameron's fresh exploration, in which he seeks to understand ethics as springing from Jesus, and to show how identifying with Jesus Christ brings order and clarity to human life. "In a world where everyone is an expert on right and wrong, this book tries to show how Jesus unifies the best of what you hear. He joins up messy lives" Cameron's accessible, coherent, and innovative analysis is divided into seven parts. Each part contains several self-contained chapters that address some specific aspect of Christian thinking about ethics and life, and each chapter is cross-referenced to other key chapters. The chapters may be read in sequence, or dipped into in any order. Part 1 considers some common ways of thinking about ethics (e.g, rules, rights, values, and results). Part 2 considers some arenas we are unaware of, but that have a huge impact on how we live. Part 3 shows how Jesus Christ becomes a better main category than ethics for determining who we are and what we do. Part 4 builds a "unified field" shaped in response to Jesus Christ, by which we can orient ourselves to whatever is around us. Part 5 examines some means by which we approach the daily details of life within this overall orientation. Part 6 looks at some aspects of our life-package, or "vocation" to see how they are located within the "unified field" Part 7 visits some areas of discussion that cause great disagreement between Christians and others, and tries to show why. Cameron offers a stimulating reappraisal of our cluttered, tumultuous lives and encourages us to see life through a different lens.

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I recently came upon a letter that John had written to me ... He wrote from his beloved Hookses in Wales (why was he not off duty?). He anticipated my forthcoming fortieth birthday (how did he know?), bringing his congratulations or commiserations as you plunge into middle age! He moved on to address an All Souls issue he had earlier raised with me as churchwarden (why did he care so much?), and then he concluded with typical humility:

I hope to finish the page proofs of Romans [his superb Bible Speaks Today commentary] today [all 432 pages of them!]. I confess I am not too displeased with some of the exposition ...

This was typical John! Pastoral, humorous, business-like, disciplined, frighteningly productive all at the same time. And all of it compressed on two sides of the neat, unmistakeable handwriting, in which, for over sixty years, he recorded and communicated the Spirit-inspired thoughts and ideas which made him a giant of the church in the twentieth century and a wonderful inspiration to many of us.

--Judge David Turner, member of All Souls and friend of John's since 1972

About this edition

• Publisher: IVP
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844745163
• ISBN 13: 9781844745166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224