{"product_id":"not-peace-but-a-sword-the-case-against-early-christian-pacifism-9781634312868","title":"Not Peace But a Sword: The Case Against Early Christian Pacifism","description":"\u003cb\u003eIt has become a near-universal assumption that Jesus was a courageous champion of Pacifism and non-violent resistance.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eBut for many years, a few maverick scholars have made the case for Jesus having been an armed insurrectionist.\u003c\/b\u003e This version of Jesus is the \"black sheep\" of gospel studies, unthinkable equally to conservative and liberal Christian scholars, who want the historical Jesus to have been a peace-loving precursor to Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A radical, even violent, Jesus is not the \"personal savior\" they feel comfortable following! But certain stubborn bits of evidence in the gospels continue to haunt them. Dare we set aside our sentimental views of Jesus to consider the alternative? In \u003ci\u003eNot Peace but a Sword\u003c\/i\u003e, New Testament scholar Robert M. Price carries this \"Jesus the Zealot\" hypothesis significantly further and asks the intellectually honest reader to take a fresh and fearless look at the surprising case for a militant Jesus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pitchstone Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781634312868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.36d","brand":"Robert M. Price","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53024886358197,"sku":"9781634312868","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781634312868.jpg?v=1787668069","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/not-peace-but-a-sword-the-case-against-early-christian-pacifism-9781634312868","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}