Flesh-and-Blood Jesus : Learning to Be Fully Human from the Son of Man

by Russ, Dan

• ISBN13: 9780801068300
• ISBN10: 0801068304
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Baker Pub Group

Summary

It's easy for most Christians to accept the Jesus who walked on water and rose from the dead. But what about the Jesus who got angry, doubted, struggled with fears, and faced tension with his mother?

Author Biography

Dan Russ (PhD, University of Dallas) is the director of the Center for Christian Studies at Gordon College. He has been a Young Life leader and a high school teacher, and he has taught business professionals, city planners, and attorneys in seminars on moral values and vision. Russ lives in Danvers, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Introduction: On Blind Spots and Spotting Blindness	p. 9
Manger Wetter: Coming to Terms with Our Neediness	p. 19
Longing to Belong: Finding Our Place in the World	p. 31
Mother's Guilt: Living in the Tension Between a Parent's Will and God's Will	p. 42
The Problem of Authority: Deciding How to Respond	p. 51
The Failures of Jesus: Why Falling Short Is Okay Sometimes	p. 64
In Need of Friends: The Importance of Companions for Life's Journey	p. 77
The Dysfunctions of Jesus's Family: Learning When to Embrace and When to Resist Our Own Families	p. 85
Jesus and Sex: Daring to See Jesus as a Sexual Being	p. 98
Good and Angry: Passion with Purpose in a World of Violence	p. 113
When Jesus Questioned the Father: How Doubt and Fear Drive Us to God	p. 130
Extreme Jesus: Eschewing Stereotypical Spirituality	p. 141
How Should Christians Die? A Lesson in the End of Life	p. 149
Scarred for Life: The Stories Our Wounds Tell	p. 159
Feasting with Jesus: Learning to Eat Between Meals	p. 169
Notes	p. 185
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