{"id":574,"date":"2012-08-02T07:15:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/?p=574"},"modified":"2012-08-02T07:15:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T13:15:12","slug":"review-of-public-jesus-at-the-houston-chronicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/08\/review-of-public-jesus-at-the-houston-chronicle.html","title":{"rendered":"Review of Public Jesus at the Houston Chronicle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Marty Troyer, who blogs as the Peace Pastor for the Houston Chronicle, just put up a review of Public Jesus. Here\u2019s an excerpt.<\/p>\n

Author\u00a0Tim Suttle<\/a>\u2019s answer in his powerful new book,Public Jesus<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0is equally stunning, though completely opposite. With equal parts creativity and courage Suttle encourages us to\u00a0base all of life, and all of our ethics, on Jesus<\/strong>. He blows up the \u201cprivate faith\u201d\u00a0myth not so much through detailed argument, but by inviting us to believe, and by showing us what\u00a0faithful daily public witness<\/strong>\u00a0is.<\/p>\n

And you\u2019ll love him for it. Indeed, Suttle is part of a new thriving core of evangelicals who are proudly calling the church to image Christ in life, or, as he refers to it,\u00a0live \u201ccruciform\u201d lives<\/strong>. I\u2019m utterly thrilled to see this transformation over such a short period of time.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s relentless in his insistence that our faith is both Jesus-centered and public . In the introduction he says, \u201cGod belongs in the public square because the public square belongs to God.\u201d He then spends the rest of his work describing what such a cruciform public life looks like:\u00a0through and at work<\/a>, in worship and rest, in our public language and in our allegiance.<\/p>\n

Public Jesus\u00a0<\/em>will challenge you to examine your own faith as he pushes out what it means to live our whole lives as though we\u00a0actually believe Jesus is Lord<\/strong>. His chapters on vocation, Sabbath, and Eucharist fall slightly short by weakening the tension created early in the book between the publicness\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Jesus-ness of our faith. (With his chapters on work and Sabbath not being Jesus-y enough, and Eucharist not being public enough. Regardless, they are still excellent!).<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s at his best when fleshing out the decidedly political nature of the Gospel and lifestyle of Jesus. He suggests, following Hauerwas and Yoder before him, that living our shared common life together in cruciformity is\u00a0a \u201cprofoundly political act.<\/strong>\u201d He then contrasts the politics of Jesus with the current American political scene and suggests that \u201cmajor surgery\u201d is required for we Christians to faithfully follow the Public Jesus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the full article & visit Marty\u2019s blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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