Divine Rebels

In an effort to reclaim the fundamental principles of Christianity, moving it away from religious right-wing politics and towards the teachings of Jesus, the American Christian activists profiled in this book agitate for a society free from racism, patriarchy, bigotry, retribution, ecocide, torture, poverty, and militarism. These activists view their faith as a personal commitment with public implications; their world consists of people of religious faith protecting the weak and safeguarding the sacred. Recounting social justice activists on the frontlines of the Christian Left since the 1950s--including Daniel Berrigan, Roy Bourgeois, and SueZann Bosler--this book articulates their faith-based alternative to the mainstream conservative religious agenda and liberal cynicism and describes a long-standing American tradition, which began with the nation's earliest Quaker abolitionists.

For more tham two hundred years, historians either have dismissed Anne Hutchinson as a troublemaker or relegated her to a footnote. Yet Anne Hutchinson showered the seventeenth century with ideas and actions so radical that the twentieth century is still struggling to implement them.

Adam and Eve have been charged with protecting the Earth from a demon emperor named Magnus Ille, as his intent is to conquer Earth and enslave humanity. After he is freed from his thousand year imprisonment, Magnus Ille set out to get revenge on the descendants of those who imprisoned him. Do Adam and Eve have what it takes to defeat Magnus?

A reassessment of early Christian apocalypticism arguing that the texts are not so much myths about good versus evil as about divine politics and heroic submission Prevailing theories of apocalypticism assert that in a world that rebels against God, a cataclysmic battle between good and evil is needed to reassert God's dominion. Emma Wasserman, a rising scholar of early Christian history, challenges this interpretation and reframes these apocalyptic texts as myths about divine politics and heroic submission. A major scholarly contribution that ranges across Mediterranean and West Asian religious thought, this volume rethinks Paul's Christ-myth as well as his most distinctive ethical teachings.