recommended bibliography

resources on the historical Jesus and the reign of God

Bruce Bawer

• Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity

Marcus Borg

• Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary
• The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith

Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan

• The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus’s Final Week in Jerusalem

John Dominic Crossan

• Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography
• God & Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now
• Who Killed Jesus?
• The Greatest Prayer: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord’s Prayer

Robert Funk

• Honest to Jesus: Jesus for a New Millennium

Richard Horsley

• The Message and the Kingdom: How Jesus and Paul Ignited a Revolution and Transformed the Ancient World
• Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder
• Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society

Wes Howard-Brook and Anthony Gwyther

• Unveiling Empire: Reading Revelation Then and Now

Donald Kraybill

• The Upside-Down Kingdom

Brian McLaren

• The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything
• Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope

Robin Meyers

• Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus
  
• The Underground Church: Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus
• Spiritual Defiance: Building a Beloved Community of Resistance

Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer

• Jesus Against Christianity: Reclaiming the Missing Jesus
• Saving Christianity from Empire

Albert Nolan

• Jesus Before Christianity

Thomas Sheehan

• The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity

C. S. Song

• Jesus & the Reign of God

André Trocmé

• Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution

Walter Wink

• The Powers that Be: Theology for a New Millennium

John Howard Yoder

• The Politics of Jesus

 

 

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