Michael L. Budde is Associate Professor of Political Science at DePaul University and the author of The (Magic) Kingdom of God: Christianity and Global Culture Industries and The Two Churches: Catholicism and Capitalism in the World System. Robert W. Brimlow is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. John Fisher College.

• Introduction 1Practicing the Politics of JesusRodney Clapp 2Always in the Shadow of the EmpireWalter Brueggemann 3Salt and Leaven: Resistances to Empire in the Street-Smart PaleochurchMarianne Sawicki 4The Nonviolent Terrorist: In Defense of Christian FanaticismStanley Hauerwas 5Solomon's Porch: The Church as Sectarian GhettoRobert W. Brimlow 6Decisions That Inscribe Life's PatternsMichael Warren 7Legion and the Believing Community: Discipleship in an Imperial AgeCurt Cadorette 8"There You Will See Him": Christianity Beyond the Frontier MythRoberto S. Goizueta 9"Blowing the Dynamite of the Church": Catholic Radicalism from a Catholic Radicalist PerspectiveMichael J. Baxter, C.S.C. 10Pledging Allegiance: Reflections on Discipleship and the Church After RwandaMichael L. Budde Contributors Index

"This book challenges both the mind and the conscience. It tests contemporary theology against the radical values of the Sermon on the Mount. And although it provides more questions than answers, those questions cut to the quick of what it means to be a Christian in today's world—challenging our complacencies, questioning our assumptions, and confronting us with the frightening possibility that we may, in fact, be so mesmerized by the idols of the marketplace, the media, and the state, that we simply no longer know what it means to honor God above all other things or what it means to truly love our neighbors as ourselves." — Robert Inchausti, author of Thomas Merton's American Prophecy

Michael L. Budde is Associate Professor of Political Science at DePaul University and the author of The (Magic) Kingdom of God: Christianity and Global Culture Industries and The Two Churches: Catholicism and Capitalism in the World System. Robert W. Brimlow is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. John Fisher College.

• Introduction 1Practicing the Politics of JesusRodney Clapp 2Always in the Shadow of the EmpireWalter Brueggemann 3Salt and Leaven: Resistances to Empire in the Street-Smart PaleochurchMarianne Sawicki 4The Nonviolent Terrorist: In Defense of Christian FanaticismStanley Hauerwas 5Solomon's Porch: The Church as Sectarian GhettoRobert W. Brimlow 6Decisions That Inscribe Life's PatternsMichael Warren 7Legion and the Believing Community: Discipleship in an Imperial AgeCurt Cadorette 8"There You Will See Him": Christianity Beyond the Frontier MythRoberto S. Goizueta 9"Blowing the Dynamite of the Church": Catholic Radicalism from a Catholic Radicalist PerspectiveMichael J. Baxter, C.S.C. 10Pledging Allegiance: Reflections on Discipleship and the Church After RwandaMichael L. Budde Contributors Index

"This book challenges both the mind and the conscience. It tests contemporary theology against the radical values of the Sermon on the Mount. And although it provides more questions than answers, those questions cut to the quick of what it means to be a Christian in today's world—challenging our complacencies, questioning our assumptions, and confronting us with the frightening possibility that we may, in fact, be so mesmerized by the idols of the marketplace, the media, and the state, that we simply no longer know what it means to honor God above all other things or what it means to truly love our neighbors as ourselves." — Robert Inchausti, author of Thomas Merton's American Prophecy

Michael L. Budde is Associate Professor of Political Science at DePaul University and the author of The (Magic) Kingdom of God: Christianity and Global Culture Industries and The Two Churches: Catholicism and Capitalism in the World System. Robert W. Brimlow is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. John Fisher College.

• Introduction 1Practicing the Politics of JesusRodney Clapp 2Always in the Shadow of the EmpireWalter Brueggemann 3Salt and Leaven: Resistances to Empire in the Street-Smart PaleochurchMarianne Sawicki 4The Nonviolent Terrorist: In Defense of Christian FanaticismStanley Hauerwas 5Solomon's Porch: The Church as Sectarian GhettoRobert W. Brimlow 6Decisions That Inscribe Life's PatternsMichael Warren 7Legion and the Believing Community: Discipleship in an Imperial AgeCurt Cadorette 8"There You Will See Him": Christianity Beyond the Frontier MythRoberto S. Goizueta 9"Blowing the Dynamite of the Church": Catholic Radicalism from a Catholic Radicalist PerspectiveMichael J. Baxter, C.S.C. 10Pledging Allegiance: Reflections on Discipleship and the Church After RwandaMichael L. Budde Contributors Index

"This book challenges both the mind and the conscience. It tests contemporary theology against the radical values of the Sermon on the Mount. And although it provides more questions than answers, those questions cut to the quick of what it means to be a Christian in today's world—challenging our complacencies, questioning our assumptions, and confronting us with the frightening possibility that we may, in fact, be so mesmerized by the idols of the marketplace, the media, and the state, that we simply no longer know what it means to honor God above all other things or what it means to truly love our neighbors as ourselves." — Robert Inchausti, author of Thomas Merton's American Prophecy