Living as the Living Jesus: A Broader Jesus Ethic - Paperback

by Kenneth W. M. Wozniak (Author)

One objective all Christians hold in common is to grow in maturity and faithfulness. Achieving that goal, however, is a constant and difficult challenge. Ethicist Kenneth W. M. Wozniak shows how the author of the epistle to the Hebrews argued that the mature Christian life is a disciplined one lived consistently in the moral realm of human experience. Although the authority for such living traditionally has been the picture of Jesus as found in the Gospels, that picture is only a partial and incomplete one. It does not include Hebrews' essential depiction of the current, living Jesus--both exalted Son and High Priest--who is the focus of worship and whom Christians claim to follow. Wozniak argues that only the often-ignored Jesus of Hebrews, when coupled with the Jesus pictured in the Gospels, is the complete Jesus Christians must obey, emulate, and implant within themselves if they are to live as mature followers of Jesus; it is to this Jesus that they must respond if they are to live faithfully as those who claim "Jesus is Lord!"

Author Biography

Kenneth W. M. Wozniak is a Christian social ethicist who spent forty years as an executive in higher education, international relief, software development, health care, and financial services, and currently serves on a variety of for-profit and non-profit boards. He has published books and articles on various ethical themes, with a focus on moral authority and hermeneutics. He earned his PhD in social ethics at the University of Southern California.