Chris Brauns - Bound Together: How We Are Tied to Others in Good and Bad Choices

In Bound Together, Chris Brauns cleverly unpacks two key theological conceptsunion with Christ and original sinand manages to explain them in a way that readers of any level and experience can understand. Highly recommended.

M ICHAEL H ORTON , author of The Christian Faith

No man is an island. But it takes a bold writer to try to convince our hyperindividualistic age. Chris Brauns sketches out a recovery plan informed by Gods Word that will help us rebuild the relations so vital to human flourishing and so often forsaken today.

C OLLIN H ANSEN, editorial director of The Gospel Coalition and author of Young, Restless, Reformed

Chris Brauns has done a masterful job of explaining the truth and its implications of the principle of solidaritywhat he calls the principle of the rope. His treatment of all humanitys solidarity with Adam in his sin and the solidarity of all believers with Christ is especially helpful, but the entire book is a masterpiece that will help us understand some of the interpersonal relationships we deal with every day. I highly commend Bound Together.

J ERRY B RIDGES, author of The Pursuit of Holiness

The rope of the gospel is stronger than the rope of original sin. With these and many other helpful words, author Chris Brauns explores a dimension of life we all cravecommunal ties to God, others, and our Savior. I recommend this book to those who see themselves as having these meaningful and enriching ties and those who wish they did. Both will profit from Chriss deep dive into trutha truth our culture, churches, and selves so desperately need.

S TEVE D E W ITT, author of Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything

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Bound Together
Copyright 2013 by Chris Brauns

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EPub Edition JANUARY 2013 ISBN : 978-0-310-49512-3

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brauns, Chris, 1963

Bound together : how we are tied to others in good and bad choices / Chris Brauns.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-310-49511-6 (pbk.)
1. Solidarity Religious aspects Christianity. I. Title.
BT738.45.B73 2013
248.4 dc23 2012034763

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