Description: Clarion Journal: eds. Ron Dart (UFV), Brad Jersak (SSU), Andrew Klager (IRPJ) & friends explore the intersection of spirituality and justice; contemplative faith and social action.
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"In a city astir with dangerous new ideas, the son of a Catholic priest becomes a leader of a nonviolent revolution." – back cover
Five hundred years ago, Europe was set ablaze by the violence and wars of the Catholic-Protestant schism, where priests and reformers alike aligned with the magisterial powers to attain political and religious dominance over the continent. Reformers such as Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli hived away from the authority of the spiritual corruption of the Pope and his armies, only to employ their own forms of violence and coercion to take control.
While theological debates over grace vs. works offered a doctrinal smokescreen for church-state powerplays, one had to wonder where, if anywhere, the peaceable kingdom of Christ, described in the Sermon on the Mount, was to be found.