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# Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (The IVP Signature Collection)

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- **What is this?** Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (The IVP Signature Collection) by andy crouch
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Human Flourishing and True Leadership
  

*by P***D on Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2016*

After reading Crouch’s “Culture Making” and “Playing God,” I was excited for the release of “Strong and Weak.” It is, I must say, surprisingly short. Though it is nearly 200 pages, the physical size of the book is quite small. The thesis, however, is anything but small. Flourishing – a word that has become increasingly popular as of late – is only achieved when we have both power (authority) and weakness (vulnerability) working together. This is the paradox of flourishing and, as the author shows, the paradox of good leadership. Crouch’s thesis is very easy to grasp – in fact, it appears frequently in 2x2 diagram form – but is profound which speaks to his great writing ability. It also, as the author points out, speaks to the nature of the truth he is writing about:“Many simple ideas are simplistic – they filter out too much of reality to be truly useful. This one is not, because it is a particular kind of simple idea, the kind we call a paradox. It holds together two simple truths in a simple relationship, but it generates fruitful tension, complexity and possibility” (10).In writing about flourishing, he also writes about the three other competing categories: exploiting, withdrawing, and suffering. Suffering, different from the other two, has the potential to lead us back into real flourishing, as he notes towards the end of the book. I’m not a leadership book kind of guy, but each of these categories has important lessons for anyone in leadership.Some books have great content which can be broken down and shared but are, perhaps, too heady for most readers. Other books have great content and are written for the masses. This book, to it’s credit, falls in the later category. I look forward to recommending it to several people and continue to look forward to more work from Crouch in the future.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Call to True Flourishing
  

*by S***O on Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2017*

I finished reading this book about ten minutes ago and I am already making a list of people I am going to recommend go buy it and read it.At the heart of this book is an exploration of the tension of the need for both authority (the ability to act meaningfully) and vulnerability (an exposure to true risk and loss) for an experience of flourishing in our lives. I found this paradigm thought provoking and helpful as I considered my own struggle for spiritual growth and increasing vibrancy in my spiritual life. It was also insightful for understanding some of the social and racial tension we walk in daily.I picked up this book because I loved Crouch’s book Culture Making. This book is less academic and more personal, but no less insightful. This is not a Christian self-help book. It is something much better. It is a fresh and vibrant look at the the power of the gospel - the good news that we can flourish, and help others flourish, by growing in our experience authority and vulnerability.With books I like, I will go back and hand copy all the portions I highlighted into my notebook for further reflection. I only do this with book worthy of the extra reflection - and this one is well worth it.I highly recommend it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An easy, but challenging read on human flourishing
  

*by M***M on Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2016*

Crouch writes, "This book is my long overdue answer to that student." The student was from Harvard, part of the Christian ministry Crouch served in, and had questioned Crouch's conception of Christian discipleship as solely one of "downward mobility," where the use of social location, personal power and experience would all combine to serve the materially and spiritually poor. Oh: and the Harvard student is African American, one who was commissioned by his church to acquire social location, personal power and experience to serve his community: but, not to return inside a nonprofit ministry: and the question to Crouch was why was this conception supposed to supersede the call and commission to discipleship he received from his church? Both conceptions address matters of human flourishing for anyone who would identify as a Christian.Crouch does a fine job of crafting a vision of human flourishing as negotiating human realities of authority and vulnerability. Crouch has great prose, and the entire book is full of anecdotes that contribute to a fine exposition on flourishing. There are several vignettes of men and women who are not white, and that contributes to a more rounded concept of flourishing. I might have wanted for him to make matters of ethnicity and justice more explicit and have a greater prominence, but that would not be Crouch's oeuvre.For the more theologically inclined reader, this book hosts a largely tacit sense of Christology and mission. There are several citations of the NT, but no dedicated chapter to the person of Jesus and his mission, and how both shape Crouch's concept of human flourishing. Again: it's largely tacit, and could be tested and trusted. More on this in a momentIf I had one negative criticism of the book, it would be the following. In discussion of flourishing as a function of authority, there's this: "Authority requires that our action be meaningful, not just willy-nilly activity...What makes action meaningful? Above all, meaningful action participates in a story...Meaningful action...takes place in the midst of a story...The capacity for meaningful action is not something we possess on our own. It is something that others confer on us. Without being given countless gifts—language, nurture, of love—by those who cared for us in our infancy and our childhood, none of us would have the capacity to act meaningfully in the world." (35-37)I'm not sure that a 3rd-person account of my actions can ever determine or judge the meaningfulness of my activity Furthermore, while I am attracted to the notion of agency participating in a larger narrative of significance, I find myself in sympathy with African American student from Harvard: Whose story is this? Finally, and please, I tread lightly here: I wonder how this account of a human person can square with the life of his beloved niece. This weight that so many Christian pastors, authors, and academics place upon language, making acquisition constitutional of our humanity, while simultaneously insisting the importance of our person is a function of what society communicates to us continues to crush Christians near and far. Don't misunderstand: I'm far from suggesting the other end of the spectrum, in which we are teflon-like in our activities. I would prefer to recognize that we have desires and actions that spring from both what matters most to us as well as our developed experience in the world that includes non-linguistic knowledge. Not everything about our humanity and our human flourishing requires language.You can take a clever quiz on human flourishing developed by the publisher here :[...]Finally, this is an easy, but challenging read. The implications for confident, yet fallible engagement with the world in Crouch's conception of human flourishing proposes an attractive, rugged form of mission for Christians.

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