First Be Reconciled: Challenging Christians in the Courts
Church, Richard Patrick / Shaffer, Thomas L.![First Be Reconciled: Challenging Christians in the Courts](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/421/4217336/CHSBZCOP034217336.jpg)
Richard P. Church seeks to recover the church as a unique reconciled body in a world of enmity, particularly via civil litigation. He traces the church's historic reticense to litigate within the body and with non-believers through key biblical texts, a historical survey, with a particular focus on the Anabaptist witness, and a constructive theological defense of the necessity of eschewing certain forms of civil litigation contrary to the chur...