Discipleship is Ardent Following; or, “I thought I followed Shelley, who thought he was following radiant desire.”

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I have to confess, when Tyler asked me to write about discipleship, my English-major brain turned to etymology.

I thought to myself:

If my old professors taught me right, the Latin for “disciple” has to be something like discipulus / di...