God Without Violence, Second Edition
A Theology of the God Revealed in Jesus
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Playing off a child's question concerning whether parents would put their son to death on a cross, this book plunges headlong into the ongoing debate about the character of God. The church confesses that God is revealed in Jesus. This book explores the implications of that radical claim. Jesus' life reveals his rejection of violence and calls for an understanding of God in nonviolent terms. Weaver thus invites us to embrace a nonviolent atonement image, in contrast to our inherited atonement images. Deriving theology from the narrative of Jesus also leads Weaver into discussions about the very nature of theology, the character of the Bible, the divine violence in the Old Testament (as well as the purported divine violence in the book of Revelation), and a rethinking of historic Christology. Each of these discussions has implications for life today--for economics, forgiveness and restorative justice, violence, gender discrimination, racism, and more. This second, expanded edition of God Without Violence is an introduction to foundational issues of theology and ethics, suitable for church discussion groups and introductory college classes.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Preface to the Second, Revised and Expanded Edition
- Preface to the 2016 Edition
- Introduction
- The Story of Jesus
- The Story of Jesus and Atonement
- Atonement and God
- New Testament Teaching and Nonviolence
- Active Nonviolence
- Atonement, Forgiveness, and Restorative Justice
- Jesus and Economics
- Racism, Ethnicity, and Gender
- The Omnipotence of God
- The Nonviolence of Godās Creation
- God of the Biblical Narrative: Violent?
- God of the Biblical Narrative: Nonviolent?
- God of the Biblical Narrative: A Resolution
- Reading the Bible Again
- Interpreting Revelation
- Looking at the Past in Revelation
- Looking Ahead in Revelation?
- Does Theology Change? Christology
- Does Theology Change? Atonement
- Open-Ended Conclusion
- Discussion Questions
- Bibliography