Choose Love Not Power: How to Right the World's Wrongs from a Place of Weakness

The God who set aside power in order to live out love—fully expressing that love on Calvary's tree—is at the core of the Christian message to the world. Yet in the centuries since Christ's refusal to yield to Satan's temptation to establish his kingdom through economic, political, and religious power, the Church has struggled to make the same refusal. In Choose Love Not Power, scholar, activist, and modern-day prophet Tony Campolo explores the relationship between love and power, beginning with an examination of Jesus' life and working toward a "theology of power" for Christians today. He surveys the implications of choosing love over power when it comes to the global community's most pressing issues—environmental degradation, economic inequality and instability, and perpetual war. Dr. Campolo suggests that the choice between love and power begins close to home: Christ-followers who choose love over power in marriage and in parenting will likewise opt for love in their churches, communities, and governments. The growing number of believers seeking a more authentically Christlike way to be Christian in a diverse, pluralistic society will be challenged and encouraged by this unflinching look at Jesus's example of love.

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Choose Love Not Power: How to Right the World's Wrongs from a Place of Weakness

The God who set aside power in order to live out love—fully expressing that love on Calvary's tree—is at the core of the Christian message to the world. Yet in the centuries since Christ's refusal to yield to Satan's temptation to establish his kingdom through economic, political, and religious power, the Church has struggled to make the same refusal. In Choose Love Not Power, scholar, activist, and modern-day prophet Tony Campolo explores the relationship between love and power, beginning with an examination of Jesus' life and working toward a "theology of power" for Christians today. He surveys the implications of choosing love over power when it comes to the global community's most pressing issues—environmental degradation, economic inequality and instability, and perpetual war. Dr. Campolo suggests that the choice between love and power begins close to home: Christ-followers who choose love over power in marriage and in parenting will likewise opt for love in their churches, communities, and governments. The growing number of believers seeking a more authentically Christlike way to be Christian in a diverse, pluralistic society will be challenged and encouraged by this unflinching look at Jesus's example of love.

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Choose Love Not Power: How to Right the World's Wrongs from a Place of Weakness

Choose Love Not Power: How to Right the World's Wrongs from a Place of Weakness

by Tony Campolo
Choose Love Not Power: How to Right the World's Wrongs from a Place of Weakness

Choose Love Not Power: How to Right the World's Wrongs from a Place of Weakness

by Tony Campolo

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Overview

The God who set aside power in order to live out love—fully expressing that love on Calvary's tree—is at the core of the Christian message to the world. Yet in the centuries since Christ's refusal to yield to Satan's temptation to establish his kingdom through economic, political, and religious power, the Church has struggled to make the same refusal. In Choose Love Not Power, scholar, activist, and modern-day prophet Tony Campolo explores the relationship between love and power, beginning with an examination of Jesus' life and working toward a "theology of power" for Christians today. He surveys the implications of choosing love over power when it comes to the global community's most pressing issues—environmental degradation, economic inequality and instability, and perpetual war. Dr. Campolo suggests that the choice between love and power begins close to home: Christ-followers who choose love over power in marriage and in parenting will likewise opt for love in their churches, communities, and governments. The growing number of believers seeking a more authentically Christlike way to be Christian in a diverse, pluralistic society will be challenged and encouraged by this unflinching look at Jesus's example of love.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801017537
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/24/2009
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 - 10 Years

About the Author

Tony Campolo is a professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. Founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education (EAPE), an organization that develops schools and social programs in various third world countries and in cities across North America, Dr. Campolo is an ordained minister and is presently recognized as an associate pastor of the Mount Carmel Baptist Church in West Philadelphia. He is a media commentator on religious, social, and political matters, and has appeared on Nightline, Crossfire, Politically Incorrect, The Charlie Rose Show, The Colbert Report, and CNN News. He cohosted his own television series, Hashing It Out, on the Odyssey Network, and presently hosts From Across the Pond, a weekly program on the Premier Radio Network in England. Dr. Campolo is the author of more than thirty books, including Letters to a Young Evangelical and Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics.

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Edition 7

1 Power Plays in the Peaceable Kingdom 11

2 Love and Power in the Family 25

3 Women with Power 37

4 When Children Get Power 49

5 Religious Power Plays 69

6 Holy Terrors 79

7 Glorious Authority 93

8 Rulers in the Upside-Down Kingdom 115

9 What to Do While We Wait for the Second Coming 135

10 The Sins of the Powerless 155

11 The Painful Cost of Conquering Love 175

12 When God Does His Stuff 193

13 Living Without Power 205

Some Concluding Words 217

Endnotes 221

Acknowledgements 223

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