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Jesus, Revolutionary of Peace: A Nonviolent Christology in the Book of Revelation is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book aims to demonstrate that the figure of Jesus in the book of Revelation can be best understood as an active non-violent revolutionary. Jesus was a warrior of the non-violent tradition. He sought to conquer his enemies not through violence but through compassion. Seeking to present a comprehensive, balanced view of this non-violent Jesus, Mark Bredin engages with Mahatma Gandhi’s theory...

co-operated with idolatrous pagan institutions are beyond redemption’.70 Kraybill comments that ‘people who love greed and violence more than the kingdom of God will have excluded themselves’.71 Kraybill reflects more the work of Yarbro Collins when he observes the joy of the saints at the fall of Babylon.72 He comments in the same interpretative way as Yarbro Collins: ‘The bile of the book pours out as a catharsis of emotion, offered to God as the only one capable of redressing the situation’.73
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