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““Bold, urgent, uncompromising, courageous, and prophetic... Lee Camp has written the political manifesto the church needs ‘for such a time as this.’”
“a document for our times”
Scandalous Witness:
A Little Political Manifesto for Christians
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Proposition 1: History Is Not One Damn Thing after Another
Proposition 2: The End of History Has Already Begun
Proposition 3: American Hope Is A Bastard
Proposition 4: Christianity Is Neither A Prostitute Nor A Chaplain
Proposition 5: The United States Is Not the Hope of the World
Proposition 6: The United States Was Not, Is Not, and Will Not Be a Christian Nation
Proposition 7: How Christian Values, and the Bible, Corrupt Christianity
Proposition 8: Every Empire Falls
Proposition 9: Christian Partisanship is Like a Fist-Fight on the Titanic
Proposition 10: Hostile Forces Have a Role in the Unfolding of History
Proposition 11. Christianity Is Not a Religion; Christianity Is a Politic
Proposition 12: Liberal Political Puissance Is Not the Goal
Proposition 13: Exemplary Political Witness Is the Goal
Proposition 14: Christianity Is Not Counter-Cultural
Propositions 15: Christian Engagement Must Always Be Ad Hoc
“I can hardly imagine anyone who takes Camp’s arguments to heart putting this book down unchanged. If I had my druthers, I would make this book required reading for all American Christians.”
“It’s impossible for me to read Scandalous Witness without a growing awareness of the ways I’ve conflated the Gospel with nationalism.... Lee has outlined clearly and beautifully all the ways, large and small we Christians abandon our first love...”
“... balm for the politically weary Christian’s soul.... I highly recommend this brief but extremely helpful book.”
“With characteristic intelligence, humor, and grace.... proposes an alternative. It may be a scandalous one, to be sure, but it is a courageously hopeful one as well.
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“I love Lee Camp. I try to read everything he writes, and I agree with most of it! His newest book is a manifesto for the Church, in a time where the American church is in total disarray.... His invitation is not to go ‘Right’ or ‘Left,’ but to go deeper.”
“a vigorous critique of nationalism and the ways in which US Christians have been seduced by so-called alignment of faith and nation..... a welcome book, one that is sure to evoke fresh thinking and fresh action.”
“challenging those who call themselves Christians to rearrange our bastardized version of the faith towards a more prophetic, historical and theologically courageous imagination.”
“A hopeful book that helps us know how better to hope.... This is a subtle book that should be widely read.”
“If you would like an alternative, read this tart, sassy and, yes, strategic book that presses us to see the church as a politic.”
Who Is My Enemy:
Questions American Christians Must Face About Islam, and Themselves
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“Stunning… Who Is My Enemy? is not a comfortable read by any means, but it expands the spirit, and is one of the truly essential books of 2011.”
“Who Is My Enemy? is truly the best book I know for all Christians who want to be faithful to Jesus while figuring out how to relate to Islam.”
“When does an astute theological inquiry become utterly engaging? When it opens each of us up to the gracious source of our own existence and lets the scales drop from our eyes. Lee Camp lets us see this process in him.... Read this book at your peril, for you will surely discover how entering into another faith tradition can enliven your own.”
“Lee Camp is courageous, and his courage is to believe that what Jesus taught is relevant today. The argument in this book is an old one with some surprising if not inflammatory twists. But the sad reason this book must be written is that Christians continue to ignore the One who said ‘love your enemies.’”
Mere Discipleship:
Radical Christianity in a Rebellious World
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“Mere Discipleship is the best single book on Christian discipleship I’ve ever read... I couldn’t recommend a book more than I recommend this one!”
“A book for our times.... a vital critique of the cultural captivity ....lucid and immensely useful book”
“A must read...”
“This is one of those books that you wear out carrying around, marking up, and loaning out... He points us towards a Christianity that is worth believing in.”
“entertaining and serious book... gives us good work that is a check against the danger of taking ourselves too seriously. ”
“Be sure you are ready for solid food before beginning Lee Camp’s Mere Discipleship. You will find here nothing of America’s pop religion. Nothing of what some are calling electronic soul molesters, hurling to hearth and household a gospel to ‘take up your cross and relax,’ or ‘take up your cross and get rich.’ I found myself frightened at times, yet exulting in the knowledge that I was exposing myself to tough truth about the faith I claim. An uncommon experience not to be rushed.”
“What a book! Profoundly biblical and revolutionary in its implications, this is surely the finest statement on the meaning of Christian discipleship that I have ever read. If you are not prepared to have your assumptions challenged and your life turned upside down, then by all means, don’t read this book.”