Justice and the Way of Jesus: Christian Ethics and the Incarnational Discipleship of Glen Stassen

By: David P. Gushee and Reggie L. Williams

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Synopsis: This edited volume will offer a rich engagement with the theological ethics of Glen Stassen (1936-2014). Eighteen Christian theologians and ethicists, mainly of senior status, will particularly engage Stassen’s last major theological-ethical proposal, encapsulated in his term “incarnational discipleship.” By this term, Stassen intended a statement of the central norm or framework for Christian ethics grounded in the holistic sovereignty of God over all of life, the Lordship of a thick, historical, incarnate, realistic Jesus, and a Holy Spirit who frees believers from any ideological captivities that block our obedience to our Sovereign God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Stassen thought he had arrived at such a pivotal insight that he hoped it would catch on and become a major concept across the discipline, something like Christian realism, liberation ethics, or narrative ethics. However, he died before he had the opportunity to do more than propose the concept.

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