On Being a Disciple of the Crucified Nazarene: Unpublished Lectures and Sermons

Ernst Käsemann - celebrated initiator of the twentieth-century "new quest of the historical Jesus" - here talks about discipleship, faith, and the worldwide lordship of Christ. Consisting of twenty-eight previously untranslated lectures and sermons delivered between 1975 and 1996, this book shows a side of Käsemann not so clearly seen in his more famous theological works.

Käsemann carefully analyzes specific Bible passages and New Testament themes, using them to speak to the realities of the...