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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Baggarly; Fred Wilcox; Prince of Peace Plowshares (Group); et al |
| ISBN: | 1884540422 9781884540424 188454052X 9781884540523 |
| OCLC Number: | 44634298 |
| Description: | xxiii, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | A noble tradition / a foreword by Howard Zinn -- Creating hope in the emperor's apocalyptic world / an introduction by Fred Wilcox -- CHAPTER 1. VALLEY OF LIES: REFLECTIONS ON THE EMPIRE'S NEW WORLD ORDER. The good shepherd -- God and Mammon -- The widow's mite -- The suffering woman becomes the daughter of God -- Going alone to the well -- Cleansing the temple: divorcing church from state -- Shalom -- Inside a locked room? -- Christ's temptations- and ours -- Life becomes light- and life -- Baptism as presentation -- Faith equals love -- CHAPTER 2. DWELLING AMONG THE TOMBS: THE EMPIRE'S REIGN OF TERROR. Condemned -- Condemnation of Christ -- Unless I wash you -- We ought to prepare one another -- Of words and works: God and empire -- Worship in spirit and truth -- Love of enemies -- CHAPTER 3. THEY WILL HAND YOU OVER TO COURTS: CONFRONTING IMPERIAL INJUSTICE. We stand in two courts -- Moving from the edge of the abyss -- Supporting the Prince of Peace Plowshares -- CHAPTER 4. TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW ME: THE COST OF WAGING PEACE INSIDE THE EMPIRE. No disciple is above her teacher -- No gap between world and action -- Christ- and everything else -- Lamb -- Healing our paralysis -- Sleep and death -- On treachery and betrayal -- A demon in the synagogue -- CHAPTER 5. WHO ARE MY MOTHER AND BROTHERS? FAMILY AND THE EMPIRE. Community as a human setting -- Testifying to truth -- Family and the cross -- Receiving children -- Parables -- Who are my mother and brothers? -- The two foundations -- CHAPTER 6. COFFIN SHIPS AND TRUTH TO POWER: INSIDE THE EMPIRE'S JAILS. Yokes and burdens -- The demon of unbelief -- CHAPTER 7. BE NOT AFRAID: CREATING HOPE WITHIN THE EMPEROR'S APOCALYPTIC WORLD. The way -- The genius of forgiveness -- Feeding the multitudes -- The great commandments -- The vine and the branches -- Light of the world -- The unity of all life -- Beatitudes -- Sleeping and watching -- Tying up the strong man -- The primacy of the childlike -- Biblical muckraking -- "Follow me" -- CHAPTER 8. PEACE WITHOUT WORDS: AN ARTIST'S INTERPRETATION OF ISAIAH 2:4. Art as timeless as war -- Footnotes. |
| Other Titles: | Disciples and dissidents |
| Responsibility: | Stephen Baggarly ... [et al.] ; edited by Fred Wilcox ; with a foreword by Howard Zinn. |
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