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Challenging the passive, “meek-and-mild” perception of Jesus still taught in many churches today, The Upside-Down Kingdom brings us back to Jesus’ teachings as perceived in his culture and context. Revealing a kingdom ruled by God where death brings life, the last are first, and victory is attained only by giving oneself up, Donald Kraybill presents Christ’s “Kingdom of God” as a social impetus...

capture the idea of inversion by thinking of two ladders side by side—one representing the kingdom of God, the other the kingdoms of this world.2 An inverted relationship between the ladders means that something highly valued on one ladder ranks near the bottom of the other. We find an inversion in the refrain of a Sunday school song when the rain and flood move in opposite directions: The rains came down, and the flood came up, The rains came down, and the flood came up. Jesus does not portray the
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