Ep43. Discipleship, Michael Mawson

I sat down with Michael Mawson to talk discipleship, suffering, weakness, and the way of the cross.

I start by asking if discipleship is inextricably tied to concepts such as these and if so, is being a disciple of Christ something we should wish on anyone... from there we range through a number of related topics and interesting thinkers from M. Shawn Copeland, to Julian of Norwich, Martin Luther to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. And we end with a helpful discussion on how this focus on the weakness of God as the locus of our salvation and basis of our faith shapes how we approach Christian mission and evangelism.

If you're interested in exploring these ideas further, Mike is teaching a course with through United Theological College (Charles Sturt University) in Port Macquarie NEXT WEEK (starting Jan 20) which you can audit. To find out more, email joannes@nswact.uca.org.au - If you can't make that but still want to study with Mike, we talk about another course he is teaching in Sydney at the end of the episode.

Mike also has some books you should check out: Christ Existing as Community: Bonhoeffer’s Ecclesiology (OUP, 2018); The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist: The Future of a Reformation Legacy, co-edited with Brian Brock (T&T Clark, 2016), and - just-released - The Oxford Handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, co-edited with Philip Ziegler (OUP, 2019). Michael Mawson is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology & Ethics at Charles Sturt University teaching at the United Theological College in Sydney. He received his PhD in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, USA. He previously taught for seven years at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

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