Living the Resurrection: The Risen Christ in Everyday Life

by Eugene H. Peterson

Publisher:

NavPress

, 2006

Overview

The resurrection of Jesus in not simply proof of his divinity, nor is the event something Christians should celebrate on one day of the liturgical year and then forget. The resurrection has crucial relevance for our spiritual formation every day.

Living the Resurrection immerses you in the life-changing experience of this biblical event. Join best-selling author and pastor Eugene Peterson as he reflects on the three aspects of Christ’s resurrection that define our lives and energize our faith:

• Resurrection wonder as the central focus of our life in Christ
• Resurrection meals as the invitation to spiritual formation in our most common daily experiences
• Resurrection friends as the intimate fellowship in whose midst the risen Jesus makes his joyful home

With writing that is full of life, beauty, and prophetic insight, Living the Resurrection brings you to the central place of life and faith—the resurrection of Christ.

The Logos Bible Software edition of this volume is designed to encourage and stimulate your study and understanding of spiritual disciplines. Scripture passages link directly to your English translations and to the original language texts, and important concepts link to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and a wealth of other resources in your digital library. In addition, you can perform powerful searches by topic and find what other authors, scholars, and theologians have to say about faith, meditation, and Christlikeness.

Key Features

• Discusses spiritual formation and a life focused on Christ
• Aims to bring the reader back to Jesus’ time to experience the Resurrection through biblical witness
• Includes resurrection stories from The Message

Contents

• Resurrection Wonder
• Resurrection Meals
• Resurrection Friends

Top Highlights

“Pope John Paul II once said as he addressed a group of leaders from Third World countries: Don’t look at the Western nations for models in your development. They know how to make things, but they don’t know how to live with them. They have acquired a mind-boggling technology, but they’ve forgotten how to raise their children.” (Page 11)

“I love the contrast between those Roman guards—insensible and sprawled on the ground, paralyzed by fear—and the two exuberant women kneeling on the same ground, energized by fear. It’s the same word in both cases—fear. But it’s not the same thing. There is a fear that incapacitates us for dealing with God, and there is a fear that pulls us out of our preoccupation with ourselves, our feelings, or our circumstances into a world of wonder. It pulls us out of ourselves into the very action of God.” (Pages 16–17)

“I’m prepared to contend that the primary location for spiritual formation—for formation-by-resurrection—is in the workplace.” (Page 39)

“The problem is that taken out of the context of resurrection wonder, any prayer soon becomes an act of idolatry—reducing God to what we can use for our purposes, however noble and useful.” (Page 33)

“They come at it from different directions and provide different details, but one element is common to each of them: a sense of wonder, astonishment, surprise.” (Page 14)

Praise for the Print Edition

Eugene Peterson is a man on whom God’s wonder is not lost. Thanks to his pen, not even a day passes that I don’t read and sigh, ‘I never thought of it that way.’

—Max Lucado, author

In this work, the resurrection ceases to be an abstract idea and is released again to be a force of wonder and fear that shapes our practice and life.

—John Ortberg, senior pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, Menlo Park, CA

As spiritual formation bids to become a fad among contemporary evangelicals, Eugene Peterson’s Living in the Resurrection offers them an alternative path rooted in wonder and gives results that are more than cosmetic.

—Frederica Mathewes-Green, Eastern Orthodox author and speaker

Our love for the Lord of glory will surely swell to new heights thanks to the wondrous faith displayed in this book that at once instructs and inspires. May our reading of Eugene Peterson’s heartfelt reflections be an Easter treat all year long.

—Susan Muto, dean, Epiphany Academy of Formative Spirituality

Euguene Peterson is a master interpreter of Scripture, a master teller of tales, and, in this book, a master practitioner of resurrection. Peterson enables the Easter faith to become a vivid reality.

—William H. Willimon, bishop, North Alabama Conference, The United Methodist Church

Product Details

• Title: Living the Resurrection: The Risen Christ in Everyday Life
• Author: Eugene H. Peterson
• Publisher: NavPress
• Publication Date: 2006
• Pages: 149

About Eugene H. Peterson

Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) was a pastor, scholar, author, and poet. He wrote more than thirty books, including his widely acclaimed paraphrase of the Bible, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, his memoir, The Pastor, and numerous works of biblical spiritual formation, including Run with the Horses, also available in a commemorative edition. Peterson was founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland, where he served for twenty-nine years before retiring in 1991. With degrees from Seattle Pacific, New York Theological Seminary, and Johns Hopkins University, he served as professor of spiritual theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, until retiring in Lakeside, Montana, in 2006.