No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
The Cross: The Non‐Apocalyptic Overcoming of Evil
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2024
Extract
Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
One oppressively hot night in 1985 in the south of Pakistan I lay on my bed punching the wall. I was very angry. A local landlord was mistreating some of our Christians in a dreadful way. I had been several times to speak to him and at first thought I was doing some good, but now realised that my intervention would change very little. The landlord was a particularly violent man, but the system itself was brutal and too old and too ingrained to give way just because one Western missionary thought it should. The people I was trying to help were powerless and so was I and that made me furious. The landlord had lots of enemies. If only one of those enemies would take a revolver to him, put out a contract on him - it happened all the time in this violent society - then our problems would be solved
- Type
- Research Article
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2003 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers
References
1 Girard, R., I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, Maryknoll 2001, p.150Google Scholar
2 For a thorough treatment of this read ch.3 of James Alison, Faith Beyond Resentment, pp.56-86
3 cf. R.Schwager, Jesus in the Dram of Salvation, New York 1999, p. 190
4 R.Schwager, ibid., p.136
You have
Access