Christian Life [Paperback]

At a time when Christian life, worship, and ecclesial identity are often reduced to polarized options, Kelly Kapic offers a theologically rich and pastorally grounded vision of communion with the triune God as the source, means, and end of life in Christ. Through Christ's prophetic, priestly, and kingly work and the Spirit's enlivening presence, we are called to worship and to lives poured out in love for God, neighbor, and creation. Saturated with Scripture and drawing deeply from the wisdom of the historic Christian faith, this book is a beacon amid today's troubled waters--abounding in theological insight, pastoral clarity, and joy.Christian existence is a response to God's love. Yet this response is also God's grace, led by Jesus himself and shaped in us by his Spirit. Our communion with God flows from our union with Christ. Against this backdrop, Kelly Kapic triangulates Christology, the individual, and the church community to situate the arc of Christian life in the worship of the totus Christus. This is a dogmatically serious treatise, brimming with insight. Kapic seamlessly joins depth and clarity, doctrine and doxology, to illuminate the liturgy of Christian living for all Christ's people. His book is a gift to both church and academy.Courses in human flourishing attract hundreds of college students, but a good life is hard to find, much less define. Kelly Kapic sets forth a theological thesis that is as comprehensive as it is concise: The good life, for which men and women were created, is a God-centered life, a life that returns God's love for us by loving God and everything that God has created. Christian Life is chock full of biblical, historical, and doctrinal direction for wise living with and right worship of the triune God.Gathering the jewels of scriptural teaching as well as a glittering array of sources across the centuries, Kapic gives us here a masterpiece. Deconstructing familiar dichotomies, this is the most edifying exploration of the Christló(