The Word Before the Powers
Subtitle: An Ethic of Preaching
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780664222338
First sentence: On the day after France surrendered to Nazi Germany during World War II, Andre Trocme, the pastor of the Reformed congregation in the small village of Le Chambon sur Lignon in southern France, stepped into the pulpit and proclaimed: "The responsibility of Christians is to resist the violence that will be brought to bear on their consciences through the weapons of the spirit."