by Greg Boyd First, both Jesus and his Jewish audience were very familiar with the OT’s commands to take “an eye for an eye and a […]

Gabrielson, Paul’s Non-Violent Gospel: The Theological Politics of Peace in Paul s Life and Letters, pp 52-54. Whenever the subject of Jesus’ peaceableness is discussed, questions […]

On Governmental Authority, 1523. You ask whether a Christian too may bear the temporal sword and punish the wicked, since Christ’s words, “Do not resist evil,” […]

Narrative Conflict in the Four Gospels by Robert Beck. CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN MATTHEW Along with the David story, the story of Moses is one of the […]

Thesis: Jesus practiced love of enemy to his own death and the NT presents this teaching as an unqualified commandment to be obeyed by his followers: […]

Most scholars agree that agapáō is used of God’s love toward man and vice versa, but philéō is rarely used by God of the love of […]