Unarmed Empire

Unarmed Empire

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"Shunned. Condemned. Controlled. Describing church, believers and nonbelievers deploy stinging terms to define an imperial, culturally privileged, and powerful American force. Church has become synonymous with shame, exclusion, and hostility. This is not the church of Jesus. American Christians are victims of a deliberate and shortsighted scheme designed to identify and defeat religious, cultural, and sexual Others. From the language of "makers and takers," to "if you're not for us, you're against us," to the continual suggestion that we are soldiers in a constant series of wars--the war on women, the war on the family, the war on Christians, the war on Christmas, the war on terror, and much more--Christians are near the heart of enmity. The New Testament, however, seeks to create an alternative community--a community devoid of fear, wherein God's love and acceptance are mediated to all people through the grace of Jesus. In Unarmed Empi

Book information

ISBN: 9781498290722
Publisher: Cascade Books
Imprint: Cascade Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 241.694
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xix, 172
Weight: 463g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 16mm