Nonviolent God
Published on 26. November 2013
272 pages
978-1-4674-3925-1 (ISBN)
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This bold new statement on the nonviolence of God challenges long-standing assumptions of divine violence in theology, the violent God pictured in the Old Testament, and the supposed violence of God in Revelation. In The Nonviolent God J. Denny Weaver argues that since God is revealed in Jesus, the nonviolence of Jesus most truly reflects the character of God.According to Weaver, the way Christians live -- Christian ethics -- is an ongoing expression of theology. Consequently, he suggests positive images of the reign of God made visible in the narrative of Jesus -- nonviolent practice, forgiveness and restorative justice, issues of racism and sexism, and more -- in order that Christians might live more peacefully.
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The Nonviolent God
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J. Denny Weaver is professor emeritus of religion at Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio. His other books include The Nonviolent Atonement and Defenseless Christianity: Anabaptism for a Nonviolent Church.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: The God of Jesus
- 1. Jesus In Acts and the Gospels
- The Earliest Statements: Acts
- Expanded Statements: The Gospels
- The Significance of the Resurrection
- Narrative Christus Victor: Round One
- The Story As Atonement Motif
- Characteristics of Narrative Christus Victor
- 2. Jesus In Revelation and Paul
- Revelation
- Reading Revelation
- The Message of Revelation
- The Seven Seals
- Beautiful Woman Versus Dragon
- Preliminary Conclusion
- Wrath, Judgment, and Divine Violence
- The Rider On the White Horse and Armageddon
- Millennium and Great White Throne
- Narrative Christus Victor: Round Two
- Narrative Christus Victor: Round Three
- The Writings of Paul
- Jesus' Death As a Sacrifice
- 3. Engaging the Atonement Tradition
- Traditional Atonement Images
- From Narrative Christus Victor to Satisfaction Atonement
- The Demise of Narrative Christus Victor
- Resurrection to Death: The Emergence of Satisfaction
- Responding to Challenges
- The Challenge of Paul
- The Challenge of Newness
- The Challenges of Threefold Synthesis and of Keeping One Version But Not Another
- The Challenge of Guilt
- 4. Divine Violence: Bible Versus Bible
- Biblical Violence and Divine Violence
- Divine Violence: Old Testament
- Divine Violence: The Gospels
- Divine Violence: Today's Version
- The Bible: Another Look
- The Old Testament
- Counters to Gospel Violence
- 5. The Conversation About God
- God Versus God
- An Arbiter: The Narrative of Jesus
- The Authority of the Bible
- Anger, Wrath, and Judgment
- Why It Matters
- Part II: The Reign of God Made Visible
- 6. Christology and the Body of Christ
- Five New Testament Christologies
- Nicea-Constantinople, Cappadocian Trinity, Chalcedon
- Conversation On Christology
- Lived Christology Today
- The Church As the Lived Narrative of Jesus
- Baptism: Creation of a New World
- The Church: A Community
- A Voluntary Church
- A Peace Church
- 7. Violence and Nonviolence
- The Nonviolence of Lived Theology
- God In the Image of Humankind
- Jesus' Nonviolence
- Nonviolence Applied
- 8. Atonement, Violence, and Forgiveness
- Forgiveness In Narrative Christus Victor
- Forgiveness In Satisfaction Atonement
- The Practice of Forgiveness: Retributive Justice
- The Practice of Forgiveness: Psychology
- The Practice of Forgiveness: Restorative Justice
- 9. Race, Gender, Money
- Jesus and Racial and Ethnic Reconciliation
- Jesus and Women
- Jesus and Economics
- A Warning: The Unholy Troika
- The Lord's Supper: An Economic Model
- Baptism and Lord's Supper As "Sacraments"
- 10. Nature and Suffering
- Jesus and Nature
- Two Kinds of Suffering
- Conclusion
- The Reign of God Today
- Trinity
- The New Jerusalem
- Version One
- Version Two
- Works Cited
- Index
