“The most radical revolution”, part 1/3
Dangerous religion Historian Tom Holland, with his 2019 book Dominion , has reminded us that we are the inheritors of the greatest ideological, social and religious revolution the world has ever seen. As 21 st -century Christians, it may be difficult for us to believe that there was ever a time when the Church was a dangerous, subversive and outlawed movement of revolutionaries. As a contemporary Anglican bishop has said, “Everywhere St. Paul went, there was a riot. Everywhere I go, they serve tea”. Whatever the Church in the Global North may now be, we probably wouldn’t use the words “dangerous” or “subversive” to describe it. How can we be dangerous once again? As Christians, should we even desire to be “dangerous”? Dangerous to whom? Make no mistake about it. It is impossible to read the New Testament without noticing that this collection of radical books is concerned with the question of...