{"product_id":"if-jesus-is-lord-loving-our-enemies-in-an-age-of-violence-9780801036286","title":"If Jesus Is Lord: Loving Our Enemies in an Age of Violence","description":"What does Jesus have to say about violence, just war, and killing? Does Jesus ever want his disciples to kill in order to resist evil and promote peace and justice?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book by noted theologian and bestselling author Ronald J. Sider provides a career capstone statement on biblical peacemaking. Sider makes a strong case for the view that Jesus calls his disciples to love, and never kill, their enemies. He explains that there are never only two options: to kill or to do nothing in the face of tyranny and brutality. There is always a third possibility: vigorous, nonviolent resistance. If we believe that Jesus is Lord, then we disobey him when we set aside what he taught about killing and ignore his command to love our enemies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis thorough, comprehensive treatment of a topic of perennial concern vigorously engages with the just war tradition and issues a challenge to all Christians, especially evangelicals, to engage in biblical peacemaking. The book includes a foreword by Stanley Hauerwas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald J. Sider\u003c\/b\u003e (1939-2022; PhD, Yale University) was the founder and president emeritus of Evangelicals for Social Action and served as distinguished professor of theology, holistic ministry, and public policy at Palmer Theological Seminary at Eastern University. He wrote more than thirty books, including \u003ci\u003eNonviolent Action\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Early Church on Killing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJust Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Good News and Good Works\u003c\/i\u003e, and the bestselling \u003ci\u003eRich Christians in an Age of Hunger.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Baker Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901391442194,"sku":"9780801036286","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d5129500-f047-4519-b1ef-631ce6935a93.jpg?v=1738424568","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/if-jesus-is-lord-loving-our-enemies-in-an-age-of-violence-9780801036286","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}