Living the Christian Life

by Ben Campbell Johnson, Robert H. Ramsey, Robert Ramey

Real-life situations in today's world constantly challenge people. Robert Ramey and Ben Campbell Johnson respond to these challenges by drawing upon the Reformed tradition to provide guidance for spiritual development. They provide practical suggestions, lesson plans and exercises, and recommendations for encouraging spiritual growth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664252869
• ISBN13: 9780664252861
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Well worth the read

I encountered this book when my mother sent it to quite a few years ago. Her note says "I commend this book for reading , discussion, and practice" She was correct, what another reviewer calls a pietistic emphasis on listening to God, I thought of as a valuable emphasis on what we to often forget to do. There is an emphasis on thoughtfulness, combining both Theology and practice that is valuable. Barth is influential and sometimes controversial in theological circles, and in some cases the where the authors are clearly influenced by him, the book may turn off some readers who disagree with his writing, however the use of those views is nuanced, certainly not taken to the extremes that later theologians have occasionally taken Barth's views. The book is based on part's of Calvin's Institutes, with language changed to meet current usages, i.e. what Calvin called Piety we would now consider Spirituality. The authors use a Biblical criticism in a Biblical Studies sense of the word where it means examination and study rather than are colloquial sense of faultfinding. I keep returning to it for spiritual practice. T