Conflating Powers and Markets
I love Jesus Manifesto. Among the Emergent types, Mark Van Steenwyk and his crew are the absolute top-shelf. They are anabaptists and flirt with anarchism. We like this. A lot. In a recent post Mark warns Emergents against becoming a mere fad, comercialized, and thus contributing to empire. A fair warning, especially considering the emergent […]
Jesus the Anti-Politic
I picked a fight with Aaron over at Wardrobe Door. Most of the discussion is below, but first I’d like to expand a bit on what Anti-Politic is. Politics is the attempt to get what you want through force or the threat of the use of force or privilege. All states must employ politics to […]
Was Mark Noll Justified in His Interpretation of the Revolutionary War?
I have a lot of respect for intellectuals who do good work and push the edge while maintaining honesty in their work. Mark Noll is just such a man. I saw him speak to a small group at Duke once, even got a word with him afterwards. He is perhaps the most prominent theological historian […]
On Privilege
I’ve commented recently on Jesus Manifesto and Young Anabaptist Radicals in discussions about privilege:
Legal privileges are based on arbitrary distinctions upheld by force. In other words, they are the product of the state. Where land was taken from Native Americans by force, Europeans were acting just as pagan as the Indians. When Africans were enslaved […]
Other Anarchist Christians
I’ve let you know about the Jesus Manifesto.
Now learn about Greg Boyd. He’s just finished a book by Jacques Ellul, The Subversion of Christianity: and has this to say about it:
Everybody needs to read this book!
Ellul’s basic thesis is that the Kingdom Jesus inaugurated with his life, death and resurrection has been […]