By Philip Jenkins
instructions to kill, to dedicate ethnic detoxification, to institutionalize segregation, to hate and worry different races and religions—all are within the Bible, and all take place with a miles better frequency than within the Qur’an. yet fanaticism is not any extra hard-wired in Christianity than it really is in Islam. In Laying Down the Sword, “one of America’s top students of religion” (The Economist) explores how religions develop prior their bloody origins, and can provide a fearless exam of the main violent verses of the Bible and an pressing name to learn them anew in pursuit of a richer, extra actual religion.
Christians can't interact with buddies and critics of different traditions—nor benefit from the inner most, so much mature embodiment in their personal faith—until they confront the texts of terror of their background. Philip Jenkins identifies the “holy amnesia” that, whereas permitting scriptural religions to develop and adapt, has demanded a virtually wholesale suppression of the Bible’s such a lot competitive passages, leaving them dangerously dormant for extremists to restore in occasions of clash. Jenkins lays naked the whole Bible, with no compromise or apology, and equips us with instruments for analyzing even the main unsettling texts, from the slaughter of the Canaanites to the alarming rhetoric of the booklet of Revelation.
Laying Down the Sword offers an important framework for figuring out either the Bible and the Qur’an, offers Westerners a reputable foundation for interplay and discussion with Islam, and offers a robust version for the way a religion can develop from terror to mercy.
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Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. But Thomas, one of the twelve, … was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord, But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they say the Lord. Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. But Thomas, one of the twelve, … was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord, But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galiliee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word. 29 John 20:19-29 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.