What constantly marked the life of Jesus was not nonviolence but in every situation the choice not to use power. This is infinitely different.
Jacques Ellul – From What I Believe
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What constantly marked the life of Jesus was not nonviolence but in every situation the choice not to use power. This is infinitely different.
That is quite good. Jesus operated in a non-violent way not as a matter of helplessness but of unimaginable restraint of power that we cannot begin to comprehend.
This is definitely one of those stunners that make you stop and look twice when you read it. I love authors who can sum up the power of God so succinctly that you cannot even fathom the magnitude of such…as you say, restraint.
Ellul is a great writer but not easy to read. There is a huge difference on the level and complexity of writing in days gone by compared to the books, even good ones, written today for an audience that can’t look away from their phone for five seconds.