Unarmed Empire
eBook - ePub

Unarmed Empire

In Search of Beloved Community

  1. 194 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Unarmed Empire

In Search of Beloved Community

About this book

Shunned. Condemned. Controlled.Describing church, believers and nonbelievers deploy stinging terms to define an imperial, culturally privileged, and powerful American force. Church has become synonymous with shame, exclusion, and hostility. This is not the church of Jesus.American Christians are victims of a deliberate and shortsighted scheme designed to identify and defeat religious, cultural, and sexual Others. From the language of "makers and takers, " to "if you're not for us, you're against us, " to the continual suggestion that we are soldiers in a constant series of wars--the war on women, the war on the family, the war on Christians, the war on Christmas, the war on terror, and much more--Christians are near the heart of enmity.The New Testament, however, seeks to create an alternative community--a community devoid of fear, wherein God's love and acceptance are mediated to all people through the grace of Jesus.In Unarmed Empire, Sean Palmer reclaims the New Testament's vision of the church as an alternative community of welcome, harmony, and peace. Unarmed Empire is for everyone who's been misled about church. It's for everyone who feels blacklisted by believers, everyone who has been hurt. It's for everyone longing for a purer experience of church.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: Burn a Church
  6. Chapter 2: The New Story We Already Knew
  7. Chapter 3: Victims of the Discourse, Part 1
  8. Chapter 4: Victims of the Discourse, Part 2
  9. Chapter 5: Superiority Complex
  10. Chapter 6: A Space for Grace
  11. Chapter 7: It’s Clear to Me Now
  12. Chapter 8: Choosing Sides
  13. Chapter 9: War and Peace
  14. Chapter 10: Unarmed Empire
  15. Chapter 11: Methodological Kindness
  16. Chapter 12: Drinking Real Wine
  17. Chapter 13: Welcoming Phoebe
  18. Chapter 14: Long Lost Love
  19. Bibliography