The Beatitudes, Discipleship, and the Justice of God

Brooks Harrington

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Cascade Books
15 October 2024

Religious ethics; Christianity; New Testaments; Christian leaders & leadership

What does Jesus call his disciples to do? To proclaim correct doctrines about Jesus? To avoid sinners and condemn sin? To impose their values and rules upon the wider society? To be supportive of the church? From the experience of almost three decades of work with the poor, the homeless, the crime victim, and the abused child as a lawyer and a United Methodist minister, Brooks Harrington hears Jesus in the Gospel according to Matthew teaching and showing that discipleship is the Way of Mercy. Disciples are called to endure in following Jesus and trusting the Father despite the challenges of discipleship, the growing misery and evil in the world, the belittling of the power of God's mercy by the world's opposing kingdoms, and the delay in the arrival of God's promised Kingdom of shalom. The Beatitudes are the twelve steps of discipleship to God's Kingdom of Mercy and blessings from God empowering disciples to persist in mercy in the midst of so much pain, injustice, and opposition. After each of the twelve steps Harrington tells a fictional story of four women struggling to be disciples in our day and time by protecting the poor and undocumented refugees.

By: Brooks Harrington
Imprint: Cascade Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 327g
ISBN: 9798385218714
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 15 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Brooks Harrington has been an ordained United Methodist minister for more than fifteen years and a trial lawyer for more than forty-eight years. He has been a criminal prosecutor, a civil litigator, the senior pastor of an inner-city church, and the founder of the Methodist Justice Ministry providing pro bono legal representation, counseling, and material support to abused women and children. He is the author of No Mercy, No Justice (2019) and Paloma (2021).

Reviews for The Beatitudes, Discipleship, and the Justice of God

""Blessed are the 'fortunate' who encounter Brooks Harrington's profound insights into the Beatitudes and discover the courage to embark on the 'Way of the Kingdom of Mercy.' Harrington pulls us into the trenches of the suffering taking place all around us and helps us recognize that we have, at last, found the life Jesus has called us to live."" --Yvonne Coon, ordained elder, United Methodist Church ""Brooks Harrington's framing of the Beatitudes as steps in discipleship--followers of Matthew's Jesus--is a fresh, new way of looking at this section of Matthew's gospel. He carefully and compellingly exegetes the passage and demonstrates the steps of discipleship with the story of the church, the trustees, the mission, and the four women. This book challenges everyone and at the same time encourages those who are fighting the good fight and causing 'good trouble' in the process."" --Tim Bruster, retired ordained elder, United Methodist Church ""Brooks Harrington is uniquely qualified to combine real-world insights and academic reflection in ways that inform and challenge us. This book made me look at the Beatitudes--and my own discipleship--through a new lens of faithfulness."" --Lance Marshall, senior pastor, First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth