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Here is something I found searching the internet today. has any one heard of the author David Augsburger?
Dissident discipleship rings a bell with me.
The Practice of Radical Attachment
Radical attachment to Jesus is not believing something about Jesus (a pietistic experience), or believing in Jesus (a conversionist experience), but believing Jesus (in discipleship) and believing what Jesus believed (in imitation). So, as he believed, love of God, love of neighbor, and becoming one's true self are three indivisble sides of the primary spiritual triangle.
David Augsburger spends his first chapter unravelling and developing the notion of the Imitation of Christ, so important in Anabaptist spirituality. He makes it clear that before we engage in such a journey we need to ensure that we are following/imitating the right Jesus (not the Jesus of our imaginations, Sunday School posters or popular imagination). The Jesus we seek to imitate is the Jesus of the gospels.
Radical Attachment includes participation as well as imitation. (Cf. Col. 2:6-7; Eph. 3:17-19.) Augsburger claims that 'participation is the soul of all active imitation of Christ.' (P. 27.) This entails a visible connectedness with Christ and others. And this is what rescues the notion and practice of imitation from being well, simple (and legalistic) imitation. Tripolar spirituality is concerned with more than me and how I live. I am not simply copying what Jesus did, but participating in his life as I connect with others, living as he lived.
We are connected to Christ, to others, to the world we inhabit. We participate in Christ's life by reflecting him to our world, and through this we are participants in the lives of others who reflect him, so we join with them to participate in all of life as fellow participant disciples.' (P. 27. Emphasis mine.)
Dissident Discipleship: The Practice of Radical Attachment
With love in Christ
brother daniel
Dissident discipleship rings a bell with me.
The Practice of Radical Attachment
Radical attachment to Jesus is not believing something about Jesus (a pietistic experience), or believing in Jesus (a conversionist experience), but believing Jesus (in discipleship) and believing what Jesus believed (in imitation). So, as he believed, love of God, love of neighbor, and becoming one's true self are three indivisble sides of the primary spiritual triangle.
David Augsburger spends his first chapter unravelling and developing the notion of the Imitation of Christ, so important in Anabaptist spirituality. He makes it clear that before we engage in such a journey we need to ensure that we are following/imitating the right Jesus (not the Jesus of our imaginations, Sunday School posters or popular imagination). The Jesus we seek to imitate is the Jesus of the gospels.
Radical Attachment includes participation as well as imitation. (Cf. Col. 2:6-7; Eph. 3:17-19.) Augsburger claims that 'participation is the soul of all active imitation of Christ.' (P. 27.) This entails a visible connectedness with Christ and others. And this is what rescues the notion and practice of imitation from being well, simple (and legalistic) imitation. Tripolar spirituality is concerned with more than me and how I live. I am not simply copying what Jesus did, but participating in his life as I connect with others, living as he lived.
We are connected to Christ, to others, to the world we inhabit. We participate in Christ's life by reflecting him to our world, and through this we are participants in the lives of others who reflect him, so we join with them to participate in all of life as fellow participant disciples.' (P. 27. Emphasis mine.)
Dissident Discipleship: The Practice of Radical Attachment
With love in Christ
brother daniel
