I have seldom the time to read Mennonite theological works, but there's one which I will try to get this year:
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church. The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, by Alan Kreider (2016)
As far as I've read about it, Kreider deems the patience testimony even more important than (and a precondition for) the peace testimony.
This all concerns me, because my preferred Early Christian virtue is inobtrusiveness (or, as they called it then, "alienship"), and this seems to me related to patience.
Has anyone here read the book? And what is your opinion about it?
Kreider on patience
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Re: Kreider on patience
Intriguing title.
some reviews:
Conrad Grebel University College / Univ of Waterloo
https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/publication ... bable-rise
Mennonite World Review
http://mennoworld.org/2016/06/06/column ... ly-church/
Most Important Book of 2016
https://www.seedbed.com/most-important- ... n-kreider/
some reviews:
Conrad Grebel University College / Univ of Waterloo
https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/publication ... bable-rise
Mennonite World Review
http://mennoworld.org/2016/06/06/column ... ly-church/
Most Important Book of 2016
https://www.seedbed.com/most-important- ... n-kreider/
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with even modest attempt at presenting balanced facts from the start.
”We’re all just walking each other home.”
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