The Central Questions -- The Setting for Jesus' Radical Teaching -- Living in Jesus' Dawning Kingdom -- Further Claims of Jesus and How Christians Evade Them -- Does the Rest of the New Testament Reflect What Jesus Taught? -- But What about . . . ? -- Jesus and Killing in the Old Testament -- Foundational Theological Issues -- Problems with Pacifism -- Problems with Just War Thinking -- What If Most (or All) Christians Became Pacifists? -- Nonviolence and the Atonement -- Christians and Killing in Church History -- If Jesus Is Lord.
Summary
"A biblical case for nonviolence from one of the preeminent Christian leaders"-- Provided by publisher.
