Friendship with Christ - by John A Vissers (Paperback)

About the Book

The idea of friendship with Jesus is popular in Christianity, but what does it really mean? This book shows how friendship with Christ is central to how Christians have experienced the providential love of God throughout church history and why it matters today.

Book Synopsis

Do the same characteristics of human friendship apply to friendship with Christ?

Friendships have the capacity to elevate our lives and make us better people; they play an important role in our moral development, spiritual growth, and personal flourishing. If this is true of human friends, is it also true of friendship with God in Christ? Can friendship with Christ mean the same thing for us today as it did for Christians throughout history?

John Vissers explores these questions and more to offer a robust biblical, historical, and theological study of friendship with Christ. Rooted in John 15, this book draws on the threefold office of Christ as prophet, priest, and king to develop a theology of divine friendship against the backdrop of the biblical record and historical tradition. Friendship with Christ, Vissers argues, is a theological framework that continues to provide consolation and hope for a secular age and suffering world.

With a foreword by Hans Boersma, this book shows that friendship with Christ has been central to the experience of the providential love of God throughout church history and why it matters today.

About the Author

John A. Vissers (ThD, University of Toronto) is professor of systematic theology at Knox College, Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, where he previously served as principal. He is an ordained minister and has served as the pastor of three congregations in the Presbyterian Church in Canada. He is also the author of The Neo-Orthodox Theology of W. W. Bryden.