R Alan Streett: 3 books
Heaven on Earth
Experiencing the Kingdom of God in the Here and Now
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The future hope of heaven is pulled into the here-and-now in this illuminating description of the kingdom of God. Popular teacher and author R. Alan Streett exposes half-truths about the kingdom that many believers have unwittingly accepted. He contrasts these with the testimony of Scripture: Jesus inaugurated...
Subversive Meals
An Analysis of the Lord's Supper under Roman Domination during the First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Subversive Meals examines the Lord's Supper within the sociopolitical context of first-century Roman domination, and concludes that it was an anti-imperial praxis. Although the Christian communal meal looked much like a typical Roman banquet in structure, with a deipnon and a symposion, it was essentially...
Caesar and the Sacrament
Baptism: A Rite of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
When the earliest Christ-followers were baptized they participated in a politically subversive act. Rejecting the Empire's claim that it had a divine right to rule the world, they pledged their allegiance to a kingdom other than Rome and a king other than Caesar (Acts 17:7). Many books explore...