Lazarus, come forth!
Subtitle: how Jesus confronts the culture of death and invites us into the new life of peace
By: John Dear
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Maryknoll, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781570759369
Subjects: Nonviolence; Raising of Lazarus (Miracle); Biblical teaching
Table of contents: title: The kingdom of God is life; title: "I give them eternal life and they shall never perish"; title: Now a man was ill; title: "I am the resurrection and the life"; title: Jesus wept; title: Jesus approached the tomb; title: The first commandment: "Take away the stone!"; title: "By now there will be a stench!": resisting the nonviolent Jesus; title: Jesus' prayer of gratitude; title: The second commandment: "Lazarus come forth!"; title: The third commandment: "Unbind him and let him go free!"; title: Serving the God of life instead of the culture of death; title: Ben Salmon, Dorothy Stang, and Oscar Romero: three Christians who fulfilled Jesus' commandments; title: The plan to kill the nonviolent Jesus; title: Washing each other's feet; title: The resurrection of the nonviolent Jesus.