A biblical scholar and activist portrays Jesus as a political revolutionary and examines the ways in which his political principles and strategies can be applied today. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
This second edition is updated and expanded.
Just how truly faithful to the vision of Jesus are the many politicians who claim to be Christian? These are the kinds of questions Obery Hendricks, a biblical scholar, activist, and minister, asks in this provocative new book.
The book unabashedly rejects the Eurocentric Jesus for the Hispanic Jesús, whose mission is to give life abundantly, who resonates with the Latino/a experience of disenfranchisement, and who works for real social justice and political ...
Portrays Jesus as a political revolutionary and examines the ways in which his political principles and strategies can be applied today.
... Christ, it becomes apparent that the Powers are inimical to Him, acting not as His instruments but as His adversaries. e ... unmasked as false gods by their encounter with Very God; they are made a public spectacle. us Christ has ...