"I've been reading with interest the important work being done by Denny Weaver and others on violence in relation to our understandings of God, atonement, and eschatology. I've also been watching, with joy, the growing rediscovery of the nonviolent heritage of the Radical Reformation. So I enthusiastically await the release of Defenseless Christianity," observes Brian D. McLaren, Author/Activist (brianmclaren.net). Entering a field of ongoing controversy, this book dares to offer a new model or vision--defenseless Christianity--for understanding Anabaptism, both present and past. The authors...
"I've been reading with interest the important work being done by Denny Weaver and others on violence in relation to our understandings of God, atonem...
With prose as clean as Hemingway s and a Kafka-esque sense of the absurd, Greg Boyd delivers a memorable book in Modern Love and Other Tall Tales. But these tales are not quite so tall as the title might suggest; in fact, their distinction lies in the way they negotiate a fine line between veracity and the farcical.
Each narrator seems to fancy himself the rational one while elaborating the most bizarre situation with little or no comment. Boyd exploits this irony by mingling a crushing sense of isolation with a...
A review of Modern Love and Other Tall Tales
With prose as clean as Hemingway s and a Kafka-esque sense of the absurd, Greg Boy...
