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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

by Tom Holland

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Living the King Jesus Gospel: Discipleship and Ministry Then and Now (A Tribute to Scot McKnight)

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On Earth as in Heaven: Daily Wisdom for Twenty-First Century Christians

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If Jesus Is Lord: Loving Our Enemies in an Age of Violence by Ronald J. Sider

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But once the Bible is read as testimony to the risen Christ, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Christ has made it possible for a people to exist who can and have survived without killing.

“In every single instance where pre-Constantinian Christian writers mention the topic of killing, they say that Christians do not do that, whether in abortion, capital punishment, or war.76 And Jesus’s statement about loving enemies is one of the reasons cited.”
― Ronald J. Sider, If Jesus Is Lord: Loving Our Enemies in an Age of Violence

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“The resurrection declared that Jesus was not the ordinary sort of political king, a rebel leader, that some had supposed. He was the leader of a far larger, more radical revolution than anyone had ever supposed. He was inaugurating a whole new world, a new creation, a new way of being human. He was forging a way into a new cosmos, a new era, a form of existence hinted at all along but never before unveiled. Here it is, he was saying. This is the new creation you’ve been waiting for. It is open for business. Come and join in.”
― N.T. Wright, Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good

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“The angry rioters in Thessalonica are not wrong when they say the Christians announce another king (Jesus) who is a rival to Caesar (Acts 17:5–8). When Peter tells Cornelius, the Roman centurion, that the Christian message is a gospel of peace about “Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all” (10:36) he is implicitly saying that it is Jesus who is in charge and the one who is truly Lord. Obviously, that means that Jesus’s peace is much more than personal peace with God. The implicit message is that Jesus is also the way to societal peace.”
― Ronald J. Sider, If Jesus Is Lord: Loving Our Enemies in an Age of Violence

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“Jesus’s resurrection falls into a different category. Not because it wasn’t a historical event in the sense of something that actually happened in history. But because if it did happen, it set a new standard for our understanding of the way the world is. Lots of events do that in smaller ways. Splitting the atom. Space travel. The discovery of America. Everything looks different once those have happened. After them, you can’t fit new discoveries into your previous picture of the way the world is. Jesus’s resurrection is like that, only much, much more so.”
― N.T. Wright, Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good

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“We know what the power of the world looks like. When push comes to shove, as it often does, it is the power of violence, using the threat of pain and death. It is, yes, the power of tanks and bombs, and also of guns and knives and whips and prisons and barbed wire and bulldozers. Weapons to destroy people’s lives; machines to destroy their homes. Cruelty in the home or at work. Malice and manipulation where there should be gentleness, kindness, and wisdom. Jesus’s power is of a totally different sort, as he explained to the Roman governor a few minutes before the governor sent him to his death—thereby proving the point. The kingdoms of the world run on violence. The kingdom of God, Jesus declared, runs on love. That is the good news.”
― N.T. Wright, Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good

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