The Original Revolution: Essays on Christian PacifismJesus created around himself a voluntary society that was counter to everything his society knew or expected. Jesus gave his members a new way to deal with offenders, with violence, with money, with leadership, with a corrupt society. He gave them a new pattern of relationships between man and woman, and an enlarged understanding of what it means to be human. This is the original revolution: the creation of a distinct community with its alternate set of values and its coherent way of incarnating them. Such a group is not only a novelty, but is also, if lived faithfully, the most powerful tool of social change. |
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Contents
Preface | 8 |
The Political Axioms of | 34 |
If Christ Is Truly Lord | 52 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Original Revolution: Essays on Christian Pacifism Volume 3 of Christian peace shelf series John Howard Yoder Series |
| Author | John Howard Yoder |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Herald Press, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jul 18, 2011 |
| ISBN | 083611812X, 9780836118124 |
| Length | 190 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Christian Living / Social Issues Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics Religion / Philosophy Religion / Religion, Politics & State |
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