Books on Biblical Nonresistance

[Heirbyadoption]

So this thread is essentially a question primarily for those who are still here on MN who espouse the typical Anabaptist understanding of Biblical Nonresistance (no military/police enrollment, nonviolence, nonswearing, nonlitigation, etc). This is not a thread to debate objections or merits of said Biblical Nonresistance. Please refrain from any temptation to do so, or else start your own thread. Thank you.

To the question: the following list of books are those in my possession (sans 10 or 15 others which I currently have lent out) which specifically address the topic of Nonresistance and/or adjoining issues, relevant accounts, etc, mostly from a Scriptural point of view - I am curious what other books on the subject of Biblical Nonresistance you have read / would recommend, and why?Thank you in advance.

• A Change of Allegiance by Dean Taylor
• Anarchy & Christianity by Jacques Ellul
• Children Of Peace by J.R. Burkholder & John Bender
• Choosing Against War by John Roth
• Christian Pacifism by Daniel Dombrowski
• Christian Pacifism in History by Geoffrey Nuttle
• Christian vs War by John D Roop
• Christianity vs War by Daniel Moomaw
• Coals of Fire by Elizabeth Hershberger Bauman
• Defenseless Christianity by Gerald Mast & J Denny Weaver
• Diary from Camp in WWI by Noah Leatherman
• Dynamic Freedoms: Separation of Church & State by Robert Watts
• Fight by Preston Sprinkle
• How Christians Made Peace With War by John Driver
• In God We Don’t Trust by David Bercot
• It Is Not Lawful For Me To Fight by Jean-Michel Hornus
• Jesus & Human Conflict by Henry A. Fast
• Love and nonresistance : God's plan for the church by John Coblentz
• Making War & Making Peace by Dennis Byler
• Martyr’s Mirror by Thieleman vanBraght
• New Testament Basis of Peacemaking by Richard McSorley
• Nonresistance Under Test by E.J. Swalm
• Overcoming Evil God's Way by Stephen Russell
• Old German Baptist Brethren in Civilian Public Service
• Pilgrims & Politics by Michael Martin
• Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder
• Prince of Peace, Gospel of Peace by Peter Walpot
• Soldiers of Compassion by Uri Bender
• The Christian & The Sword by Peter Walpot
• The Church of the Brethren & War 1708-1941 by Rufus Bowman
• The Kingdom Of God Is With You by Leo Tolstoy
• The Love of Enemy & Nonretaliation In The New Testament by Willard Swartley
• The Myth of a Christian Nation by Greg Boyd
• The New Testament Basis of Pacifism: The Relevance of an Impossible Ideal by G.H.C. MacGregor
• The Olive Branch by S. F. Sanger and D. Hays
• The Principle of Peace & Its Abuse by William Coning
• The Upside Down Kingdom by Donald Kraybill
• The Way God Fights by Lois Barrett
• The Whirlwind Cometh by An Anonymous Mennonite
• Then Would My Servants Fight by Herman Hoyt
• They Loved Their Enemies by Marian Hostetler
• Threatened With Resurrection by Jim Amstutz
• Violence by Jacques Ellul
• Violence, Resistance & War by Jacques Ellul
• War & Peace by Vernard Eller
• War & Peace in the World's Religion by John Ferguson
• War, Peace & Nonresistance by Guy Franklin Hershberger
• Why I Am A Conscientious Objector by John M. Dreschler
• Why I Do Not Take The Sword by Isaac Tiessen

[RZehr]

How about The Kingdom That Turned The World Upside Down?

[Heirbyadoption]

True. It's one of the ones I have lent out, come to think of it.

[Neto]

This is a book which I sort of criticized here before (because I think he has some things wrong in the first section of the book), but I picked it up again later, and find some valuable points. That said,
The Anatomy of a Hybrid - A Study in Church-State Relationships, by Leonard Verduin

[steve-in-kville]

That's quite the book collection!

[Heirbyadoption]

This is a book which I sort of criticized here before (because I think he has some things wrong in the first section of the book), but I picked it up again later, and find some valuable points. That said, The Anatomy of a Hybrid - A Study in Church-State Relationships, by Leonard Verduin

I actually have a couple of Verduin's books and while I didn't necessarily share his view on quite everything, I do appreciate much that he writes. Could you share what you found disagreeable in the first part of AOH?

[Heirbyadoption]

That's quite the book collection!

I may or may not have a bit of a bibliophiliac disorder... Mostly, I just need another bookshelf or two.

[Neto]

This is a book which I sort of criticized here before (because I think he has some things wrong in the first section of the book), but I picked it up again later, and find some valuable points. That said, The Anatomy of a Hybrid - A Study in Church-State Relationships, by Leonard Verduin

I actually have a couple of Verduin's books and while I didn't necessarily share his view on quite everything, I do appreciate much that he writes. Could you share what you found disagreeable in the first part of AOH?

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The above is where I commented on it before. This was probably my main "beef" with what he wrote. (I'll look back at my notes on the book later.)

[barnhart]

Heir, that is an amazing list. I have only read a handful of them, but it covers anything I would have recommended.

[joshuabgood]

How about Ronald Sider...If Jesus is Lord, loving your enemies in an age of violence.