Defenseless Christianity: Anabaptism for a Nonviolent Church
from GOODREADS;
"I've been reading with interest the important work being done by Denny Weaver and others on violence in relation to our understandings of God, atonement, and eschatology. I've also been watching, with joy, the growing rediscovery of the nonviolent heritage of the Radical Reformation. So I enthusiastically await the release of Defenseless Christianity," observes Brian D. McLaren,Author/Activist (brianmclaren.net). Entering a field of ongoing controversy, this book dares to offer a new model or vision--defenseless Christianity--for understanding Anabaptism, both present and past. The authors content that an Anabaptism defined as defenseless Christianity should be seen as a nonviolent Christian movement with a world-reconciling theology even though some first-generation Anabaptists were not pacifists. Greg Boyd, Author, The Myth of a Christian Nation; and Pastor, Woodland Hills Church, expresses in the foreword his hope that "God uses this book to call Anabaptists along with other Jesus-followers back to the beautifully foolish, enemy-loving, cross-bearing center of our faith." Nancy R. Heisey, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Church History at Eastern Mennonite University as well as Mennonite World Conference president, reports that "My first reaction on reading Defenseless Christianity was, 'Them's fightin' words!' On further reflection, I'm grateful for the gift Weaver and Mast have offered by provocatively addressing a host of issues in Anabaptist historiography and theology on behalf of contemporary communities of Christ's followers. Mennonite vision for the church but also issues a compelling call to faithful living." Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm, Associate Professor of Preaching and Worship, Bethany Theological Seminary, adds, "Let the reader beware: the dynamic nature of Christ's peace permeates this text-not as a position to hold but as a way of creative engagement and witness to God's reconciling love for all creation." And Elaine Moyer, Associate Director, Mennonite Education Agency, concludes that "This book not only presents the peaceful Anabaptist-Mennonite vision for the church but also issues a compelling call to faithful living."
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I'm sorry, but what is the purpose of this post in the Logos Forum? It has nothing to do with the Logos program or resources. I understand the author would like more Anabaptist resources, but there are places for book reports and pushing an ideology and the Logos Forum is not it.
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Lee Webb said:
I'm sorry, but what is the purpose of this post in the Logos Forum? It has nothing to do with the Logos program or resources.
Actually this part of the forum is the place where any user of Logos may make suggestions (hence the name) for new ressources or features which are not in Logos yet.
Lee Webb said:I understand the author would like more Anabaptist resources
For me, that's a very valid purpose for posting in this part of the forum. Calvinists, RCCs, Arminians etc. do the same. Thus the Logos "program development" or whatever it is called internally becomes aware of the existence of such ressources as well as (from the feedback her) potential user = buyer interest into these ressources.
Lee Webb said:there are places for book reports and pushing an ideology and the Logos Forum is not it
I beg to differ: I don't see the suggestions pushing an ideology more than any other (but then people suggest resorces they just want to be able to research in Logos, maybe for ecumenic or apologetic reasons). However: if someone just suggests book ABC by author XYZ it leaves most users as well as Logos in the dark about what it is, why it could be helpful etc. Thus I think the information contained in the posting is very helpful.
Mick
Have joy in the Lord!
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Lee Webb said:
I'm sorry, but what is the purpose of this post in the Logos Forum? It has nothing to do with the Logos program or resources. I understand the author would like more Anabaptist resources, but there are places for book reports and pushing an ideology and the Logos Forum is not it.
I would say this is perfectly appropriate in the suggestions forum. It suggests a title and gives an informal review that describes the content and what other authors say about the content.
Out of curiosity, Lee, how would you think descriptions of suggestions should be restricted? There are plenty of other examples where people have posted similarly for CP content, pre-pubs, and other suggestions for new modules and this hasn't ever come up before.
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Dear Mr WSeb
Thanks you for your opinion.
The book report from GOODREADS did better justice to this suggestion than I could have.
It was a suggestion placed in the Suggestion FORUM.
This is what this forum is about, and you ae welcome to politely reject any suggestion, but you mild attack on the suggestion I believe was wrong...
I do not reject your freedom to speech, just the manner.[:)]
Christ should be in all we do.. I meant no harm to anyone and ask forgiveness if this was offensive.
Sincerely
Fred mORGAN[:)]
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Lee Webb said:
I'm sorry, but what is the purpose of this post in the Logos Forum? It has nothing to do with the Logos program or resources. I understand the author would like more Anabaptist resources, but there are places for book reports and pushing an ideology and the Logos Forum is not it.
I see this type of posts in other Bible software also and feel that it is appropriate as well. Sometimes when a person suggests a book the people at the software company would like a description of the book to see as to why it would be worthwhile to pursue licensing and such. Giving a detailed description answers these questions. Others often chime in with a thumbs up or "+1" to endorse the suggestion.
In this case [Y]
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Lee Webb said:
I'm sorry, but what is the purpose of this post in the Logos Forum? It has nothing to do with the Logos program or resources. I understand the author would like more Anabaptist resources, but there are places for book reports and pushing an ideology and the Logos Forum is not it.
This post requesting resources was completely in-bounds! What was the purpose of your post?[^o)]
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I have subscribed to the "General" RSS feed using an RSS reader for a very long time. Usually it lists posts regarding issues and updates. I was surprised to see book reports and suggestions begin to be listed. There have been times when people have tried to start theological debates here, and I could not understand why the moderator was not stepping in. Somehow the "suggestions" feed must have started showing up in my General feed. I will unsubscribe from this and see if I can re-subscribe to a feed that does not include Suggestions.
Please accept my humblest apologies as I did not know that I was reading posts from the "suggestions" feed.
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Happens to all of us Lee. :-)
I can't blame you for being on edge after some of the junk we have seen in the last couple of weeks! I think that most of us are and responded with the same thing on our minds as you had. It is kind of weird how we can be put into defensive mode so easily. With your explanation I don't think that an apology is necessary.0
