Here is the must-read election-year book for Christian Americans. What should Christians do when allegiances to the state clash with personal faith? Haw and Claiborne (The Irresistible Revolution) slice through politics as usual and well past the superficial layers of the culture wars with their lucid exploration of how Christians can and should relate to presidents and kings, empire and government. Their entertaining yet provocative tour of the Bible's social and economic order makes even the most abstruse Levitical laws come alive for our era. They also provide a valuable political context for Christ's life, reminding readers that Jesus did not preach the need to put God back into government---he urged his followers to live by a different set of rules altogether, to hold themselves apart as peculiar people. The compelling writing is enhanced by a lavish, eye-popping layout. The pages are a riot of textured callouts, colors, photos and fonts---the perfect packaging for a message that must compete in a world of sound bites. With this second book, Claiborne emerges as an affable, intelligent, humorous prophet of his generation, calling people out of business-as-usual in a corrupt world and back to the radically different social order of the biblical God. (Mar.) -- Publisher's Weekly
Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and bestselling
author. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta and founded The
Simple Way in Philadelphia. He heads up Red Letter Christians,
a movement of folks who are committed to living “as if Jesus meant
the things he said.” Shane is a champion for grace, which has led
him to jail advocating for the homeless, and to places like Iraq
and Afghanistan to stand against war. Now, grace fuels his passion
to end the death penalty.
Shane’s books include Jesus for President, Red Letter
Revolution, Common Prayer, Follow Me to Freedom, Jesus, Bombs, and
Ice Cream, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers, his
classic The Irresistible Revolution, Executing Grace, and
Beating Guns. He has been featured in a number of films, including
Another World Is Possible and Ordinary Radicals. His
books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Shane
speaks over one hundred times a year, nationally and
internationally. His work has appeared in Esquire, SPIN,
Christianity Today, the New York Times, and the Wall Street
Journal, and he has been on everything from Fox News and Al Jazeera
to CNN and NPR. He’s given academic lectures at Harvard, Princeton,
Liberty, Duke, and Notre Dame.
Shane speaks regularly at denominational gatherings, festivals, and
conferences around the globe.
Chris Haw is a husband, father, carpenter, and an assistant
professor of theology and religious studies at the University of
Scranton. He has published various academic articles on political
theology and René Girard’s mimetic theory, and he is coauthor of
Jesus for President and author of From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart
and Monotheism, Intolerance, and the Path to Pluralistic Politics.
He created and directs the University of Scranton Prison
Education Program.
'Here is the must-read election-year book for Christian Americans.
What should Christians do when allegiances to the state clash with
personal faith? Haw and Claiborne (The Irresistible Revolution)
slice through politics as usual and well past the superficial
layers of the culture wars with their lucid exploration of how
Christians can and should relate to presidents and kings, empire
and government. Their entertaining yet provocative tour of the
Bible's social and economic order makes even the most abstruse
Levitical laws come alive for our era. They also provide a valuable
political context for Christ's life, reminding readers that Jesus
did not preach the need to put God back into government -- he urged
his followers to live by a different set of rules altogether, to
hold themselves apart as peculiar people. The compelling writing is
enhanced by a lavish, eye-popping layout. The pages are a riot of
textured callouts, colors, photos, and fonts -- the perfect
packaging for a message that must compete in a world of sound
bites. With this second book, Claiborne emerges as an affable,
intelligent, humorous prophet of his generation, calling people out
of business-as-usual in a corrupt world and back to the radically
different social order of the biblical God.'
*Publishers Weekly Starred Review*
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