This post is part of a series. If rhetoric is protected speech, and incitement is not, is violence or use of mortal force ever ethically justified? The question of pacifism is an important subject, from both the ethical and Christian theology points of view. From a...
This series is made up of the following posts: The Limits of Christian Non-Violence 01: Non-redemptive Destruction The Limits of Christian Non-Violence 02: The Balancing Principles
This post is part of a series. I am taking a pretty fantastic course at Fuller Theological Seminary this quarter entitled IS502 – THE PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY. Fuller is largely populated with what I would call center-left Evangelicals, and often, the profs and students...
Are the life and teachings of Jesus a proper focus for the development of a Christian ethic, and could such an ethic fit into the framework of the rest of the New Testament? In The Politics of Jesus, John Howard Yoder answers with a circumspective...
Previously , I have put forth the assertion that pacifism is NOT biblical, but of course, this confuses many. I think that the root of the confusion comes with confusing two different areas of life: The two kingdoms: this world v. God’s coming kingdom The...
