Killing Enmity: Violence and the New Testament

Is the New Testament inherently violent? In this book a wellregarded New Testament scholar offers a balanced critical assessment of charges and claims that the Christian scriptures encode, instigate, or justify violence. Thomas Yoder Neufeld provides a useful introduction to the language of violence in current theological discourse and surveys a wide range of key ethical New Testament texts through the lens of violence/nonviolence. He makes the case that, contrary to much scholarly opinion, the New Testament is not in itself inherently violent or supportive of violence; instead, it rejects and overcomes violence. [Published in the U.K. by S.P.C.K. as Jesus and the Subversion of Violence: Wrestling with the New Testament Evidence.]