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An anarchistic reading of the Bible (2)—Creation and what follows
Ted Grimsrud—February 2, 2015 This is the second in a series of posts. In this survey of some biblical themes looked at from an anarchistic angle, I will not be real precise in my use of “anarchistic.”...
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An Anarchistic Reading of the Bible (3)—Exodus and Torah
Ted Grimsrud—February 9, 2015 This is the third in a series of posts. My argument that the Christian Bible, when read as a whole, reflects a strong anarchistic sensibility certainly has at its center...
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An Anarchistic Reading of the Bible (4)—Conquest and Kingship
Ted Grimsrud—February 16, 2015 This is the fourth in a series of posts. We find an intense struggle at the heart of the Old Testament story—and hence at the heart of the biblical faith. It’s a...
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An Anarchistic Reading of the Bible (5)—Prophetic Critique
Ted Grimsrud—February 23, 2015 This is the fifth in a series of posts. Part of the beauty and part of the frustration of the Old Testament is that it is mostly descriptive and not overly directive in...
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An Anarchistic Reading of the Bible (6)—Messiah
Ted Grimsrud—March 23, 2015 This is the sixth in a series of posts. Christians in general do not necessarily think of Jesus as a political philosopher—or even political practitioner. However, for the...
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The empire “breaks bad”—Christian faith in the Trump era, part one: What...
Ted Grimsrud—November 29, 2016 To “break bad” can mean to “go wild,” to “defy authority” and break the law, to be verbally “combative, belligerent, or threatening” or, followed by the preposition “on,”...
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What kind of Christian politics? Some beginning thoughts
Ted Grimsrud—April 5, 2017 We are living in interesting times. I can remember in the late 1990s having several conversations with progressive friends about the future of Christianity in the United...
View ArticleThe anarchistic appeal of the Bible: A needed story for human wellbeing...
Ted Grimsrud—February 16, 2021 I would say that I got politicized in the mid-1970s, about the time I finished college. I grew up paying attention to the news. My dad was a high school social studies...
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Ted Grimsrud—April 22, 2023 As long as I have cared about Christianity and politics, which is about as long as I have been a pacifist, I have thought that we need a political philosophy that captures...
View ArticleA political reading of the New Testament (part 2): The apostolic witness
Ted Grimsrud—November 8, 2023 [Back in 2015, I posted a series of short essays in Thinking.Pacifism.net on an anarchistic reading of the Bible. The series included several pieces on the Old Testament...
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