Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses by Philip Jenkins

Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses by Philip Jenkins

Philip Jenkins delivers a fearless examination of the darkand violent verses of the Bible--and a call for us to read them anew in pursuitof a richer, more honest faith. From one of America's best scholars ofreligion (The Economist), this daring exploration of the Scripture'smost difficult passages forces us to confront and accept the violence that wasas integral to the formulation of Christianity's message as it was for manyother of the world's religions, and shows us how a full understanding of theScripture will allow us to finally move towards a more peaceful, spiritualworld. Readers of Bart Ehrman's God's Problem, John Selby Spong's The Sins of Scripture, andJenkins's own The Jesus Wars, as well as every Christian eager to squarethe recurrent violence of the Scripture with Christianity's enduring message ofpeace, will find these difficult questions explored in full in Laying Downthe Sword.

Philip Jenkins is Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He has published widely on contemporary religious themes, including New Age and esoteric movements, and is the author most recently of The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice
and the highly acclaimed The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity.

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Title	Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses
Author	Philip Jenkins
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2021-05-18
Number of pages	320
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