Radical Christian Writings: A Reader

Radical Christian Writings......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Christianity:Radical and Political......Page 18
1 Justin (ca.100 –ca.165)and Cyprian (ca.300)1......Page 29
Cyprian,Epistle I to Donatus (third century)......Page 30
2 The Acts of Paul and Thecla (second century)......Page 32
3 Pelagius (late fourth and early .fth centuries CE)......Page 40
On the Christian Life......Page 41
On Riches......Page 43
4 Joachim of Fiore (1135 –1202)and Peter Olivi (1248 –1298)......Page 62
Peter Olivi on Poverty and the Role of St.Francis (thirteenth century)......Page 64
5 Marguerite Porete (d.1310)......Page 66
The Mirror of Simple Souls (ca.1306)......Page 67
6 John Ball (d.1381)......Page 68
Sermon......Page 69
7 William Langland (1330 –1387)......Page 70
Piers Plowman ,Passus XVII (fourteenth century)......Page 71
8 Jan Hus (ca.1372 –1415)......Page 79
Letters of John Hus (.fteenth century)......Page 80
9 Lollard Sermon for Christmas Day on Luke 2:1 –14 (early .fteenth century)......Page 84
10 Girolamo Savonarola (1452 –1498)......Page 87
Compendium of Revelations (1495)......Page 88
11 Defending the Indians......Page 90
Bartolomé de Las Casas (1474 –1566),Historia de las Indias......Page 91
12 Argula von Grumbach (ca.1492 –1554)......Page 97
To the University of Ingolstadt (1522)......Page 98
13 Thomas Müntzer (1489?–1525)......Page 103
Vindication and Refutation (1524)......Page 104
14 William Tyndale (1494 –1536)......Page 109
The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)......Page 110
15 Early Anabaptist Writings......Page 112
A Hymnic Form of Anna Jansz ’s Testimony to Her Son (1539)......Page 114
The Answer of some who are called Anabaptists (1536?)......Page 117
Peter Riedemann,Account of Our Religion (ca.1545)......Page 119
16 The Family of Love......Page 122
Hendrick Niclaes,Introduction to the Holy Understanding of the Glass of Righteousness (ET 1574)......Page 124
Hendrick Niclaes,Terra Pacis.A True Testi .cation of the Spiritual Land of Peace......Page 128
17 Early Baptist Worship......Page 133
Letter from Hugh and Anne Bromehead (1609)......Page 134
18 Thomas Helwys (ca.1550 –ca.1616)......Page 135
A Short Declaration of the Mistery of Iniquity (1612)......Page 136
19 The Levellers......Page 137
John Lilburne (1615 –57),The freeman ’s freedom vindicated (1646)......Page 138
A Petition of Women (1649)......Page 139
20 John Milton (1608 –1674)......Page 142
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)......Page 143
Eikonoklastes (1649)......Page 146
Sonnet XV (1655)......Page 147
21 Gerrard Winstanley (1609 –1676)......Page 148
Truth Lifting Up Its head Above Scandals (1648)......Page 150
The New Law of Righteousness (January 1649)......Page 151
The True Levellers Standard Advanced (April 1649)......Page 156
A Watch-Word to The City of London and the Armie (August 1649)......Page 159
Fire in the Bush (March 1650)......Page 160
The Law of Freedom in a Platform (1652)......Page 162
An Additional Digger Text from Iver,Buckinghamshire: A Declaration (May 1650)......Page 163
22 Abiezer Coppe (1619 –1672)......Page 166
A Fiery Flying Roll (1649)......Page 167
23 Anna Trapnel (ca.1654)......Page 172
The Cry of a Stone (1654)......Page 173
24 Priscilla Cotton and Mary Cole......Page 175
To the Priests and People of England (1655)......Page 176
25 Anne Wentworth (ca.1679)......Page 181
The Revelation of Jesus Christ (ca.1679)......Page 182
26 James Nayler (ca.1617 –1660)......Page 185
Behold You Rulers (1658)......Page 186
27 John Bunyan (1628 –1688)......Page 190
The Pilgrim ’s Progress (1678)......Page 191
28 William Blake (1757 –1827)......Page 193
Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794)......Page 195
Preface to Milton (1804)......Page 198
29 John Woolman (1720 –1772)......Page 200
Some Considerations on the Keeping of the Negroes (1754)......Page 201
30 The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (ca.1797 –1883)......Page 204
31 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 –1902)......Page 208
Address to the First Women ’s-Rights Convention (1848)......Page 209
The Woman ’s Bible (1895 –8)......Page 211
32 Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 –1892)......Page 214
Disestablishment (1877)......Page 215
33 Joseph Arch (1826 –1919)......Page 217
Autobiography (1898)......Page 218
34 Henry Scott Holland (1847 –1918)......Page 221
Our Neighbours (1911)......Page 222
35 Padraig Pearse (1879 –1916)......Page 224
The Fool......Page 225
The Rebel......Page 226
36 Frank Weston (1871 –1924)......Page 227
Address to the Second Anglo-Catholic Congress (1923)......Page 228
37 The Barmen Declaration (1934)......Page 229
38 Dorothy Day (1897 –1980)......Page 232
The Long Loneliness and other writings by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin......Page 233
John Rowe,Wage-Workers in industry as an expression of faith (1965)......Page 237
40 Jacques Ellul (1912 –1994)......Page 244
The Presence of the Kingdom (1951)......Page 245
41 Alan Ecclestone (1904 –1992)......Page 249
The Parish Meeting at Work (1953)......Page 250
42 Martin Luther King,Jr.(1929 –1968)......Page 257
Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)......Page 258
43 Camilo Torres (1929 –1966)......Page 263
Love and Revolution (ca.1965)......Page 264
44 Dorothee Soelle (1929 – ))......Page 266
Credo from Political Evensong (1968)......Page 267
Mary and Martha (1990)......Page 268
45 The Solentiname Community (1966 –1977)......Page 271
Nicaraguan Peasant Mass (1970s)......Page 272
46 Steve Biko (1946 –1977)......Page 275
Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity (1973)......Page 276
47 Stanley Hauerwas on John Howard Yoder (1927 –1997)......Page 278
Stanley Hauerwas,Messianic Paci .sm (1973)......Page 279
48 William Stringfellow (1928 –1985)......Page 283
An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973)......Page 284
49 Ian M.Fraser......Page 289
Christian Grassroots Communities in Europe (1980)......Page 290
50 Carter Heyward......Page 293
Liberating the Body (1980)......Page 294
51 Herbert McCabe (1926 –2001)......Page 300
The Class Struggle and Christian Love (1980)......Page 301
52 Oscar Romero (1917 –1980)......Page 305
The Political Dimension of the Faith from the Perspective of the Poor (1980)......Page 306
53 John Vincent (1929 –)......Page 308
OK.Let ’s be Methodists (1984)......Page 309
54 The Kairos Document (1985)......Page 313
55 Carlos Mesters......Page 333
God ’s Project......Page 334
56 The Interpretative Method of “Unlock ”......Page 336
57 Theology from the Perspective of “Third-World ” Women......Page 339
Aruna Gnanadason,Women ’s Oppression:A Sinful Situation (1988)......Page 340
Chung Hyun Kyung,Struggle to be the Sun Again (1990)......Page 341
Theology and the Context (1989)......Page 343
59 Sara Maitland......Page 349
Radegund from Angel and Me (1995)......Page 350
60 Kenneth Leech (1939 –)......Page 355
The Rebel Church In the Back Streets –Where Are We Now?(1996)......Page 356
Jeremiah,the World,the Wound of God (1999)......Page 360
62 Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928 –)......Page 363
The Task and Content of Liberation Theology (1999)......Page 364
63 Thomas Hanks......Page 371
Matthew and Mary of Magdala:Good News for Sex Workers (2000)......Page 372
Index......Page 375
Scriptural Citations......Page 378