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Who is God? What gives our lives meaning? Can we begin again?
The human soul simply cannot stop asking these primal questions. Ancient or modern, devout or on the edge of faith—all of us wonder about God, our lives, and what we’re supposed to do with them. When Jesus taught his followers to pray, he sought to answer these deep questions with a spiritual practice for a fierce flourishing. This book is a passionate meditation on the profound significance of Jesus’s prayer.
With years of study, teaching, and peacemaking around the world, Dr. Andrew DeCort uncovers Jesus’s radical vision for human flourishing in the face of suffering and violence. Flourishing on the Edge of Faith invites us into that vision through a daily practice of praying with Jesus.
"This book is at once comforting and discomfiting in a deeply personal way. I confront the devastation of war every day, and so I keep a poster on my office wall that reminds me, 'Don't be ashamed to stand for peace.' Whether you're a believer or not, Flourishing on the Edge of Faith will give you the shameless courage necessary to stand for peace."
- Dr. Alex de Waal, President, World Peace Foundation
"Flourishing's fresh, blazing, Jesus-intoxicated spiritual vision can speak to everyone. Andrew is one of the most inspired, and inspiring, Christian thinkers and practitioners that I know anywhere in the world."
- Rev. Dr. David Gushee, past President, The American Academy of Religion and The Society of Christian Ethics
"I am an atheist, would never dream of praying, and believe that religion has wrought much evil in the world. But Flourishing on the Edge of Faith embodies the kind of Christianity that I do not hesitate to get behind." (David Livingstone Smith, author of On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It)
"Flourishing on the Edge of Faith is a guidebook for the soul."
- Michael Fishbane, Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Studies Emeritus, University of Chicago
Andrew received his PhD in religious and political ethics from the University of Chicago. In 2016, he founded the Institute for Faith and Flourishing in Chicago. In 2019, he co-founded the Neighbor-Love Movement in Ethiopia. IFF and NLM have reached over twenty million people with the invitation to nonviolent spirituality. Andrew has taught ethics, public theology, peace and conflict studies, and Ethiopian studies at Wheaton College, the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, and the University of Bonn.
Andrew is the author of Flourishing on the Edge of Faith: Seven Practices for a New We (BitterSweet Collective) and Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning: Ethics after Devastation (Fortress Academic). His words have appeared in Foreign Policy, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the BBC, The Atlantic, The Economist, Christianity Today, Comment Magazine, Sojourners, The Other Journal, Wheaton College Magazine, The Journal of Religion, Political Theology, All Africa, BitterSweet Monthly, and numerous other platforms. Andrew writes the newsletter Stop & Think. He lives in Chicago with his wife Lily, a gentle spirit and luminous painter.
Also available on:
Who is God? What gives our lives meaning? Can we begin again?
The human soul simply cannot stop asking these primal questions. Ancient or modern, devout or on the edge of faith—all of us wonder about God, our lives, and what we’re supposed to do with them. When Jesus taught his followers to pray, he sought to answer these deep questions with a spiritual practice for a fierce flourishing. This book is a passionate meditation on the profound significance of Jesus’s prayer.
With years of study, teaching, and peacemaking around the world, Dr. Andrew DeCort uncovers Jesus’s radical vision for human flourishing in the face of suffering and violence. Flourishing on the Edge of Faith invites us into that vision through a daily practice of praying with Jesus.
"This book is at once comforting and discomfiting in a deeply personal way. I confront the devastation of war every day, and so I keep a poster on my office wall that reminds me, 'Don't be ashamed to stand for peace.' Whether you're a believer or not, Flourishing on the Edge of Faith will give you the shameless courage necessary to stand for peace."
- Dr. Alex de Waal, President, World Peace Foundation
"Flourishing's fresh, blazing, Jesus-intoxicated spiritual vision can speak to everyone. Andrew is one of the most inspired, and inspiring, Christian thinkers and practitioners that I know anywhere in the world."
- Rev. Dr. David Gushee, past President, The American Academy of Religion and The Society of Christian Ethics
"I am an atheist, would never dream of praying, and believe that religion has wrought much evil in the world. But Flourishing on the Edge of Faith embodies the kind of Christianity that I do not hesitate to get behind." (David Livingstone Smith, author of On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It)
"Flourishing on the Edge of Faith is a guidebook for the soul."
- Michael Fishbane, Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Studies Emeritus, University of Chicago
Andrew received his PhD in religious and political ethics from the University of Chicago. In 2016, he founded the Institute for Faith and Flourishing in Chicago. In 2019, he co-founded the Neighbor-Love Movement in Ethiopia. IFF and NLM have reached over twenty million people with the invitation to nonviolent spirituality. Andrew has taught ethics, public theology, peace and conflict studies, and Ethiopian studies at Wheaton College, the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, and the University of Bonn.
Andrew is the author of Flourishing on the Edge of Faith: Seven Practices for a New We (BitterSweet Collective) and Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning: Ethics after Devastation (Fortress Academic). His words have appeared in Foreign Policy, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the BBC, The Atlantic, The Economist, Christianity Today, Comment Magazine, Sojourners, The Other Journal, Wheaton College Magazine, The Journal of Religion, Political Theology, All Africa, BitterSweet Monthly, and numerous other platforms. Andrew writes the newsletter Stop & Think. He lives in Chicago with his wife Lily, a gentle spirit and luminous painter.
