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Just Politics, Moral Deficit, Killing and Following Jesus: Amos Yong reviews four Ron Sider books

| October 30, 2014 | no comments

 

Al Tizon (left) and Paul Alexander (right) are the co-presidents of Evangelicals for Social Action.

The preceding overview is indicative of why Ronald Sider is considered a “Christian giant” – from John DiIulio’s chapter in Following Jesus – in the realm of evangelical social and political theology. Journeys in Radical Discipleship gathers twenty-two colleagues and former students in honor of Sider’s wide-ranging and ground-breaking contributions in these arenas. Many of the essayists are themselves well-recognized scholars, including Vinay Samuel and Chris Sugden, Craig Keener, Samuel Escobar, John Perkins, Shane Claiborne, Glen Stassen, David Gushee, and others. The three parts of the festschrift organize the honoree’s evangelical commitments, holistic ministry initiatives, and public policy proposals. Many provide historical perspective and personal and anecdotal insight into Sider’s approaches, influence, and relationships. The book’s two co-editors, colleagues of Sider’s at Palmer Seminary, have done a great service, especially to those new to the Siderian corpus, since readers can begin here to appreciate why, although controversial from certain angles, Sider’s legacy will remain to substantively shape evangelical thought and action vis-à-vis the public domain well into the middle of the present century.

Reviewed by Amos Yong

 

Publisher’s page for Just Politics: http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/just-politics/340470

Publisher’s page for Fixing the Moral Deficit: http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/code=3795

Preview Fixing the Moral Deficit: http://books.google.com/books?id=LWGS_fWi80EC

Publisher’s page on The Early Church and Killing: http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/the-early-church-on-killing/288640

Preview The Early Church and Killing: http://books.google.com/books?id=HtjsH7pPaegC

Publisher’s page for Following Jesus: http://www.ocms.ac.uk/regnum/detail.php?book_id=108

USA distributor: https://wipfandstock.com/store/Following_Jesus_Journeys_in_Discipleship_Essays_in_Honor_of_Ronald_J_Sider

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Category: Living the Faith, Summer 2014

About the Author: Amos Yong is Professor of Theology & Mission and director of the Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena. His graduate education includes degrees in theology, history, and religious studies from Western Evangelical Seminary and Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, and Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, and an undergraduate degree from Bethany University of the Assemblies of God. He is the author of numerous papers and over 30 books. fuller.edu/faculty/ayong/ amosyong@fuller.edu Facebook

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