This book documents some of the pacifist and social justice convictions of early Pentecostals, many of whom were called traitors, slackers, cranks, and weak-minded people for extending Jesus' love beyond racial, ethnic, and national boundaries. They wrestled with citizenship and Jesus' prohibitions on killing. They rejected nation-worship, war profiteering, wage slavery, patriotic indoctrination, militarism, and Wall Street politics--and many suffered for it. They criticized governments and churches that, in wartime, endorsed the very thing forbidden in their sacred book and civil laws. They...
This book documents some of the pacifist and social justice convictions of early Pentecostals, many of whom were called traitors, slackers, cranks, an...
Noted theologian and bestselling author Ron Sider provides a career capstone biblical-theological case for the view that Jesus calls his disciples to love, and never kill, their enemies.
Noted theologian and bestselling author Ron Sider provides a career capstone biblical-theological case for the view that Jesus calls his disciples to ...
