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Author: McLaren, Brian D.

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

ISBN#: 978140028029

Description:

From the author of The Secret Message of Jesus and a leader in the emerging church movement, this book is an exploration of what the life and teachings of Jesus have to say about the most critical problems in our world today. He compares the situation in Jesus' time, with the imperial story of Rome and its opposition, to the situation in our time, with the "imperial narrative" of the United States as a superpower and its "counternarratives", both those that are violent and those that are characterized by withdrawal. He argues that Jesus can be seen as calling people to a fourth narrative, the nonviolent alternative of the kingdom of God. Paperback, Hardcover, 327 pp, 2009