Solus Jesus

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If you read one book this year about the future of Christianity, then choose to read this inspiring book. Solus Jesus is about spiritual liberation for our new age, 500 years after the Reformation began to free men and women to more personally embrace their faith. A lot has changed in those centuries. Christians turned from owning slaves to embracing former slaves as friends and family. Now, many evangelicals are beginning to embrace the inclusion of people they once shunned because of their gender and orientation.Emily Swan and Ken Wilson tell us that's all part of Christ's continuing call. As co-founders of Blue Ocean Faith, they are on the vanguard of transforming the evangelical movement. In these pages, they argue that the key to a vibrant faith today lies at the heart of that first Reformation, when the rallying cry was: "Sola Scriptura!" (Only Scriptures!) Now, Christians must move even closer to the heart of the Bible with the cry: "Solus Jesus!" The key to inclusion and growth is to focus on "Only Jesus!" If we do, Swan and Wilson argue, Christianity will move into this new millennium with a unifying invitation to the whole world."Drawing from personal experience and those who have long carved out theologies far from power, Swan and Wilson show how Solus Jesus can open a portal to the divine communion that is possible between all people", writes Deborah Jian Lee, author of Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism"Born in a cauldron of faith and pain, Solus Jesus: A Theology of Resistance is a highly original, deeply provocative first stab at a post-evangelical, post-'gay debate' pastoral theology, " writes David P. Gushee, author of Changing Our Mind and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. "Ken and Emily's book is loving and courageous, compelling and convicting, scholarly and personal all at once. … This book held up a mirror to my heart, asking me to forsake my anxious need for certainty, to repent of all the rivalries that cripple me, and to rest again like a child, at the breast of a God in whose fierce and fearless love there is home for us all, " writes the Rev. Susan K. Bock of Grace Episcopal Church in Mount Clemens, Michigan."Solus Jesus challenges us to see the authoritative Jesus in a fresh light, so that his life, message, death, and rising summon us to live in a new way as individuals and congregations, " writes Brian D. McLaren, author of The Great Spiritual Migration.