A simple thesis: ‘Jesus practiced nonviolent enemy-love to his own death and Matthew presents this teaching as a commandment to be obeyed by his disciples.’ Mt […]

Brandan Robertson, Huffpost Cultural Commentator, Activist, Pastor, and Author, Feb. 2015. “Love Your Enemies and Bless Those Who Persecute You” Matthew 5:44 ESV It seems like […]

Laelius and Faustus Socinus, Founders of Socinianism: Their Lives and Theology Part One by Marian Hillar While in Kraków Socinus became involved in the disputes and […]

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 […]

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: […]