Love your enemies. Prior to when Jesus first uttered these revolutionary words, no religion or moral teaching had ever propounded such a way of life. For those of us committed to the way of Jesus, He has much to teach us about working for peace amongst the oppressed and marginalized of our world.
Some questions addressed in this book are: What can we learn from the early Christians and their refusal to employ violence? Are there lessons to be gleaned from the course of events that led the Church by and large to forsake this foundational teaching of Jesus? How do we reconcile the violence in the Hebrew Scriptures with Jesus' pacifist teaching? And finally, what does it practically look like to nonviolently work for peace, specifically in those places in our world that are void of God's shalom?
This book has been written not so much for your average armchair theologian, but for contemplative Christian practitioners laboring on Christ's behalf amongst the poor, oppressed and marginalized of our world.