Jesus the Pacifist
A Concise Guide to His Radical Nonviolence

An argument is only strong if it adequately rebuts the best objections of its opposition. Unfortunately, Jesus the Pacifist does not succeed at this. At the heart of the book's problems lie its method of Biblical interpretation (i.e. its hermeneutic). While Matthew Curtis Fleischer is a competent the......more

I bought three or four copies of "The Old Testament Case For Nonviolence" to give out to people - that's how much I loved it. Today, after reading the advance copy of "Jesus the Pacifist" I bought three paperback copies to share - Fleischer did it again! Fleischer expertly handled many (if not all) o......more

Here is a concise, yet thorough, summary of Jesus’s ethics toward violence. This book is more accessible than many of its inspirations, yet it is also structured for systematic thinkers who would rather work through the whole discourse than just nibble at its edges. This book is an excellent startin......more

Matthew Fleischer did a great job surprising me with his previous book, The Old Testament Case for Non-violence. He follows the same methodology of considering New Testament texts of violent nature in their context and against the explicit teachings of Jesus in this new book while fairly considering......more

Having read Fleischer's "The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence," I was expecting this new book to be in the same vein. However, I thought "Jesus the Pacifist" was much better. The new book seems to be better organized, have a better flow, and there isn't really any section where I got bored or bogg......more