Jesus for President review
Good review of Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne. Much of what the book talks about is hinted at in this interview with Claiborne, Chuck Colson (Watergate and Prison Fellowship) and Greg Boyd (open-theism and Christus Victor)
In Jesus for President Claiborne wants Christians to disavow their country and all civil governance in favor of exclusive allegiance to a nonviolent Jesus whose chief mission is resisting “empire.” But Claiborne’s interpretation of Jesus, his few selective quotations from early church fathers notwithstanding, is largely divorced from the universal church’s understanding of the Savior. Instead, Claiborne insists on a narrowly reinterpreted Jesus as distilled by Yoder and several others in 20th-century America for whom Jesus is more social critic than Resurrected Redeemer.
