Killing Enmity : Violence and the New Testament
(2011)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Baker Publishing Group : Made available through hoopla, 2011
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781441232083 (electronic bk.) MWT11703642, 1441232087 (electronic bk.) 11703642
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Is the New Testament inherently violent? In this book a well-regarded New Testament scholar offers a balanced critical assessment of charges and claims that the Christian scriptures encode, instigate, or justify violence. Thomas Yoder Neufeld provides a useful introduction to the language of violence in current theological discourse and surveys a wide range of key ethical New Testament texts through the lens of violence/nonviolence. He makes the case that, contrary to much scholarly opinion, the New Testament is not in itself inherently violent or supportive of violence; instead, it rejects and overcomes violence
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