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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...

Never be said of us: we had no war to wage. Evelyn Underhill Peace is life itself. But by peace I do not mean life of passivity. I do not mean a life without action because sometimes we have to act a lot to bring peace. Aung San Suu Kyi In this chapter I will outline my understanding of the term ‘nonviolence’ through examining the work of the great nonviolent activist and martyr Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi (1869–1948), more than any person in the twentieth century, encapsulated
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