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The Revolution: A Field Manual for Changing Your World

The Revolution: A Field Manual for Changing Your World
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Foreword: Jim Wallis
Contributor: Dan Haseltine
Contributor: Rev. David Beckmann
Contributor: Marie Smith
Contributor: Joe Curnow
Contributor: Doak Bock
Contributor: Jena Lee
Contributor: Father Demetri Kantzavelos
Contributor: Rose Berger
Contributor: Reagan Demas
Contributor: Peter Illyn
Contributor: Penny Hunter
Contributor: Cranford Joseph Coulter
Editor: Heather Zydek
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2006-04-04
ISBN: 0976817527
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Relevant Books

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Book Review: One sided and poorly written
Summary: 1 Stars

This book covers a number of topics that evangelical Christians *do* need to educate themselves on, such as the AIDs crisis, gang warfare and the environment. The first few chapters of this book cover subject matter that most Christians - and non-Christians for that matter - will find broad agreement on. However, as you progress through the book, the leftist agenda becomes so obvious that you begin to question the book's objectivity. For instance, the chapter on the death penalty is written by a strident death penalty opponent who consistently applies straw man arguments. The chapter called "War and Peace" is a disaster. By this point, the reader will not be the least bit surprised to find that another left wing activist and pacifist writes this chapter. If you're looking for a good intellectual analysis of the Just War doctrine or acknowledgement that good Christians can come to to different conclusions about this topic, you will not find it in this chapter, either.
Clearly, this book was written with an agenda. But I'm not sure how much this actually advances the agenda of turning a moderate or conservative evangelical towards the progressive world view, because so many of the arguments are simply not that compelling or balanced.

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