**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...
**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.**? ?Contents** ?I. "Violence" and "New Testament" ??II. Jesus and Violence ?? 1. Turning the cheek and loving enemies ?? 2. Parables, Forgiveness, and Judgment ?? 3. Violence in the Temple? ??III. Atonement: redemptive violence? ??IV. Warfare in the New Testament ??V. Concluding Chapter ***-Publisher.***
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. [Published in the UK by SPCK as *Jesus and the Subversion of Violence: Wrestling with the New Testament Evidence*.]
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**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...
**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.**? ?Contents** ?I. "Violence" and "New Testament" ??II. Jesus and Violence ?? 1. Turning the cheek and loving enemies ?? 2. Parables, Forgiveness, and Judgment ?? 3. Violence in the Temple? ??III. Atonement: redemptive violence? ??IV. Warfare in the New Testament ??V. Concluding Chapter ***-Publisher.***
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. [Published in the UK by SPCK as *Jesus and the Subversion of Violence: Wrestling with the New Testament Evidence*.]
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