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| The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical | 
 enlarge | Author: Shane Claiborne
Publisher: Zondervan
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  141 reviews
Sales Rank: 1609
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0310266300
Dewey Decimal Number: 277.3083092
EAN: 9780310266303
Publication Date: February 1, 2006
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 A needed witness March 22, 2006
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
In this book Shane gives his readers a chunk of himself. He speaks of the grace of God that has seduced him into becoming an extremist for grace in Philly and numerous other places. Using stories from his own experience, Shane opens up another possible world where sidewalk chalk, dancing, laughter, love, forgiveness, and grace prove to be more powerful and more real than 'smart' bombs, military 'intelligence', hatred, and darkness.
In a weird way this book reminded me a lot of Hauerwas' "With the Grain of the Universe". Both books show that violence is part of an insane world and that there is a REAL world breaking into history through the resurrection of Jesus. Shane's book is all a book could ever hope to be; a wonderful work towards inspiring and encouraging people to fall in love with Jesus and to become extremists for God's grace.
The Kingdom is a Revolution March 19, 2006
39 out of 45 found this review helpful
Shane has captured the complacency found in western Christianity. Personally I prefer deep books on theology, but this author has given us "street-wise" theology that needs to be read by every teen, collegiate, and adult. Shane has taken the essence of the message of Jesus and given a practical and pastoral theology. That does not mean it has become domesticated, not in the least. Shane Claiborne sees the phrase "Kingdom of God" and exchanged the world "Revolution" for the word "Kingdom." Does that make a difference? Not in what Jesus meant, but it greatly changes how people view the practicaly day to day workings of Jesus' life, ministry, teachings, and words. He freely shows how even the words of Jesus existed in the flesh through the works of Ghandi and Mother Teresa. Whether it is sleeping with the lepers or giving away everything he has to feed an empty stomach, Irresistible Revolution grabs the westernized, domesticated, once-a-week Christian and shakes them to the core with ideas and thoughts that rarely enter most church doors on a given Sunday. Does that mean I agree with it all? No. But reading a good book, like Shane's, is like eating fish...there is a lot of meat and a few bones to spit out. But in the end, I think every reader will be greatly satisfied with the meal after feasting on this book.
Simply Amazing March 17, 2006
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
God is doing some amazing things through this man--and the best part is that Shane is sharing these things and helping the rest of us learn what it is like to truly live out a life of radical faith. What does it mean to be Christ-like? This book (in addition to the Bible, obviously) paints a good picture of that.
This is the greatest book that I have ever read (besides the Bible, of course). I recommend it to any and every one, Christian, Catholic, Atheist, etc. It is a must read.
Not What You Might Think March 11, 2006
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
One might expect something quite different from the cover of the book, and in fact it is quite different from the run-of-the-mill "Look at what I'm doing now Mom" types of books from the young and the listless.
Shane Claiborne turns out a very interesting story of his experiences as a young college graduate entering the oft baffeling world of "Current American Culture" and coming to grips with the age-old question of "WadaIdonow?"
The book is not so much "revolutionary" or "radical" as a take on how one young mans response to the teachings of Jesus Christ and his experiences living with those who are "Living the Gospel" has unfolded.
The most refreshing parts of the book for me centered around his candid response and involvement with those who he found living the Gospel. These persons are simple, powerfull, crazy, quiet and effective workers in bringing the Grace of God to human beings.
When you turn the last page of the quirky little book you are aware that you have met a different kind of young man....and that he is on to something....and perhaps we are invited to get in-on-it. Try it you might like it....but don't talk about it. It could be catching.
Challenging, Extrordinary, and Within Grasp March 2, 2006
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
In his book, The Irresistable Revolution: Life as an Ordinary Radical, Shane Claiborne speaks of his journey into love. He tells the stories of his life, a path that has led an upwardly mobile Christian young man into one of the worst neighborhoods I have ever been in. Although this book is full of radical theology (stuff that gets you to really fall in love with loving God's poor), it is communicated by stories. These tales are always delightful, often funny, and very confrontive to the ways of a middle-class suburbanite. Yet I don't feel guilty about my life by the time I am done with the book: I feel invited into serving God's poor and working to bring about a more just world, bit by bit. Shane shares with gentleness and care.
Shane is very careful to embrace the Christian church while at the same time challenge it to be more persistent with God's call to involve our lives with the poor and work for justice. It is not a riducule of evangelicalism, as he is clear that he is an evangelical; it is merely a relook at what evangelicalism can and should be about: living in the way that Jesus would have us to live.
And with all that said, Shane presents the downsides of solidarity with the poor while also sharing about the wonderful lifestyle of joy that can come about through creating what he calls the Kingdom of God. Life as an ordinary radical might lower your economic social status and it might put you on the FBI list of ones to watch, but it also allows you the opportunity to depend on your neighbors, play with children, and live without a lot of the worries that a materialistic culture brings.
The book reads easy enough for a middle schooler to get, and deep enough for a PhD to be moved. It is excellent material for group study. Pick up ten copies and have your Sunday School class dig in, and then go try some of the lifestyle stuff for yourself. It'll be awesome!!!
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