Just Discipleship

Michael J. Rhodes (PhD, Trinity College/University of Aberdeen) is the lecturer in Old Testament at Carey Baptist College. He is the author of Formative Feasting: Practices and Virtue Ethics in Deuteronomy's Tithe Meal and the Corinthian Lord's Supper; Practicing the King's Economy: Honoring Jesus in the Way We Work, Earn, Spend, Save, and Give (with Brian Fikkert and Robby Holt); and numerous articles in popular outlets such as Christianity Today and The Biblical Mind. Rhodes has spent more than fourteen years involved in community development and urban ministry work, and is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. He currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand with his wife, Rebecca, and their four children.

Part I: Just Discipleship: Mapping the Terrain


1. The Story Behind (and the Story of) this Book

2. "Justice to Victory": Reclaiming the Old, Old Story

3. Becoming Just: Mapping Moral Discipleship

Part II: Becoming Just Disciples


4. Consuming Character: Justice Begins at the Feast

5. Singing Our Way Towards Justice

6. Justice without Wisdom is Powerless, Wisdom without Justice is Predatory

7. Becoming Just in the Meantime: The Gift and Task of Discipleship in 1 John

Part III: Becoming a Just People


8. A (Jubilee) Case for (Ecclesial) Reparations?

9. Justice on the Way: Jubilary Improvisation in Ever-Changing Circumstances

10. Re-Arranging the Chairs in the Beloved Community: Just Discipleship and the Multi-Ethnic Church

Part IV: Discipling Politics: Just Discipleship Amidst the Nations


11. Into Egypt: Contemporary Evangelical Politics and "The Joseph Option"

12. Embracing the Daniel Option: Moral Discipleship for the Exercise of Political Power

13. "For the Joy Set Before Us": Concluding Reflections on Just Discipleship