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Every time Christians proclaimed, “Jesus is Lord,” they were also saying, “Caesar is not.” It was deeply and subversively political. It was as strange to say, “Jesus is my Lord,” two thousand years ago as it would be to declare him commander-in-chief today.
The Irresistible Revolution
Shane Claiborne
The way violence, or the threat of violence, turns human relations into mathematics will crop up again and again over the course of this book. It is the ultimate source of the moral confusion that seems to float around everything surrounding the topic of debt.
I believe what the canonical gospels report and what the historic creeds confess concerning the crucified and risen Christ. That’s what makes me an orthodox Christian. But I also believe in Jesus’s ideas—the ideas he preached about the peaceable kingdom of God. And that’s what makes me a radical Christian.
A Farewell to Mars
Brian Zahnd
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