Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses Christianity Became More Peaceful than Islam - Hardcover

Jenkins, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006199071X ISBN 13: 9780061990717

Verlag: HarperOne, 2011

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Book by Jenkins Philip

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Bringing to light the dark and violent verses of the Bible that have been hidden from view, a scholar of religion offers a way to read and interpret these troubled texts to attain a richer, more honest faith. 20,000 first printing.

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Commands to kill, to commit ethnic cleansing, to institutionalize segregation, to hate and fear other races and religions—all are in the Bible, and all occur with a far greater frequency than in the Qur’an. But fanaticism is no more hard-wired in Christianity than it is in Islam. In Laying Down the Sword, “one of America’s best scholars of religion” (The Economist) explores how religions grow past their bloody origins, and delivers a fearless examination of the most violent verses of the Bible and an urgent call to read them anew in pursuit of a richer, more genuine faith.

Christians cannot engage with neighbors and critics of other traditions—nor enjoy the deepest, most mature embodiment of their own faith—until they confront the texts of terror in their heritage. Philip Jenkins identifies the “holy amnesia” that, while allowing scriptural religions to grow and adapt, has demanded a nearly wholesale suppression of the Bible’s most aggressive passages, leaving them dangerously dormant for extremists to revive in times of conflict. Jenkins lays bare the whole Bible, without compromise or apology, and equips us with tools for reading even the most unsettling texts, from the slaughter of the Canaanites to the alarming rhetoric of the book of Revelation.

Laying Down the Sword presents a vital framework for understanding both the Bible and the Qur’an, gives Westerners a credible basis for interaction and dialogue with Islam, and delivers a powerful model for how a faith can grow from terror to mercy.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: HarperOne
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 006199071X
• ISBN 13: 9780061990717
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320