Efnisyfirlit

• Title Page
• Prologue: Confessions of an Autobiographical Exegete
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Foreword
• Part I: Confronting the Powers across the New Testament
• Chapter 1: Resistance and Nonresistance
• Part II: The View from the Top Down
• Chapter 2: Power and Powerlessness
• Chapter 3: “Thus You Will Know Them by Their Fruits”
• Chapter 4: “What Is That to Us? See to It Yourself”
• Chapter 5: “They Did to Him Whatever They Pleased”
• Part III: The View from the Bottom Up
• Chapter 6: Rewriting the Messianic Script
• Chapter 7: Transforming Nonresistance
• Chapter 8: The Hard Sayings of Jesus in Real-World Context
• Chapter 9: “As Sheep in the Midst of Wolves”
• Chapter 10: “Suffering Violence” and the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt 11:12)
• Chapter 11: “Wherever This Good News Is Proclaimed”
• Chapter 12: Inheriting the Earth
• Epilogue: An Advent Meditation from Bethlehem, Christmas 2000
• Bibliography