Laying down the Sword Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses

Name: Laying down the Sword Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses
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ISBN: 9780061990724

ISBN-10: 0061990728

ISBN-13: 9780061990724

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Authors: Philip Jenkins

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Philip Jenkins delivers a fearless examination of the dark and violent verses of the Bible—and a call for us to read them anew in pursuit of a richer, more honest faith. From “one of America’s best scholars of religion” (The Economist), this daring exploration of the Scripture’s most difficult passages forces us to confront and accept the violence that was as integral to the formulation of Christianity’s message as it was for many other of the world’s religions, and shows us how a full understanding of the Scripture will allow us to finally move towards a more peaceful, spiritual world. Readers of Bart Ehrman’s God’s Problem, John Selby Spong’s The Sins of Scripture, and Jenkins’s own The…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.67" wide x 7.99" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Philip Jenkins is professor of history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University. His many books include Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Social Crisis.



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Introduction: Motes and Beams



Scripture as Problem



Everything That Breathes



Truth and History



Words of the Sword



The Inheritance



Sons of Joshua



Warrant for Genocide



Amalekite Nightmares



Truth and Reconciliation



Judging God



Coming to Terms



Historians and Prophets



Preaching the Unpreachable



Scripture Alone?


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index