by Etienne Curnow, France Here’s a rough outline of my attempt to get to the heart of what Jesus expects of us all in terms of […]

by Robert Roberg David taught us to love our enemies and pray for them. “For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful […]

John Piper, “Jesus’ Love Command in the Synoptic Gospels and in the early Christian paraenesis,” p 90f. Turning to the sixth antithesis we may ask whether […]

by LaCocque, pages 95-6. Jesus claimed to be (or to become) the ultimate manifestation on earth of the kingdom he heralded: he inaugurated the realm of the […]

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 […]