Radical Christian Writings: A Reader
Within the Christian church, a consistent radical and  concurrently political strain was developed over the centuries.  That strain has two chief characteristics: it centers on Jesus  as understood by the New Testament authors and by the early  church, and it criticizes the "false" religions in which faith  gets thin while theater gets thick. This radical strain is also  political in that it requires Christians to subject the  practices of the world to the Politics of the Kingdom. Its  followers and founders, who range from the apologist Justin to  feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, produced a theology of plain  speaking in their homes and on the streets rather than in the  universities. Bradstock (United Reformed Church, London) and  Rowland (Queen's Coll., Univ. of Oxford) have assembled the  writings of 63 radical Christian authors from the second through  the 20th centuries. Some are theologians of greater or lesser  renown, others are social activists, still others are poets and  essayists. Although many of the cited authors have appeared in  other anthologies, the organization and diversity of this work  make it fairly distinctive. Recommended for seminary and  academic libraries. David I. Fulton, Coll. of Saint Elizabeth,  Morristown, NJCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.