We do not find in the pages of the New Testament the final and ultimate picture of this alternate way of enemy love, but instead a record of the first bold and faithful steps taken in that direction within their own cultural context and time which was engulfed in the assumptions of the virtue of violence. […] Properly interpreting the New Testament—not as detached scholars but as followers of Jesus and his way—thus involves recognizing the redemptive trajectory it sets away from religious violence, and then continuing to develop and move forward along that same trajectory ourselves. In other words, *we cannot stop at the place the New Testament got to, but must recognize where it was headed*. — Derek Flood, Disarming Scripture
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:04:59 +0000
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