How to have an enemy Righteous anger and the work of peace

Melissa Florer-Bixler

Book - 2021

Does Jesus' call to love our enemies mean that we should remain silent in the face of injustice? Jesus called us to love our enemies. But to befriend an enemy, we first have to acknowledge their existence, understand who they are, and recognize the ways they are acting in opposition to God's good news. In How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace, Melissa Florer-Bixler looks closely at what the Bible says about enemies--who they are, what they do, and how Jesus and his followers responded to them. The result is a theology that allows us to name our enemies as a form of truth-telling about ourselves, our communities, and the histories in which our lives are embedded. Only then can we grapple with the power of the ...acts of destruction carried out by our enemies, and invite them to lay down their enmity, opening a path for healing, reconciliation, and unity. Jesus named and confronted his enemies as an essential part to loving them. In this provocative book, Florer-Bixler calls us to do the same.--

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Published
Harrisonburg, Virginia : Herald Press [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Melissa Florer-Bixler (author)
Physical Description
214 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-214).
ISBN
9781513808130
9781513808147
  • Foreword
  • Gratitude as Preface
  • 1. Who Is My Enemy?
  • 2. Making Room for Enemies
  • 3. Praying for Enemies
  • 4. Shared Anger and Forgiveness
  • 5. Mary's Politics
  • 6. Love Your Enemies
  • 7. Undoing Family
  • 8. Know Your Enemy
  • 9. Jesus Draws the Line
  • 10. Becoming Enemies to Mammon
  • 11. Whiteness and the Enemy
  • 12. The End of Enemies
  • A Sermonic Epilogue
  • Notes
  • The Author