Lazarus, come forth! : how Jesus confronts the culture of death and invites us into the new life of peace - Dear, John, 1959- (Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 2011)
The kingdom of God is life -- "I give them eternal life and they shall never perish" -- "Now a man was ill" -- "I am the resurrection and the life" -- "And Jesus wept" -- "Jesus approached the tomb" -- The first commandment : "Take away the stone!" -- "By now there will be a stench!" : resisting the nonviolent Jesus -- Jesus' prayer of gratitude -- The second commandment : "Lazarus come forth!" -- The third commandment : "Unbind him and let him go free!" -- Serving the God of life instead of the culture of death -- Ben Salmon, Dorothy Stang, and Oscar Romero : three Christians who fulfilled Jesus' commandments -- The plot to kill the nonviolent Jesus -- Washing each other's feet -- The resurrection of the nonviolent Jesus.
Keywords: Raising of Lazarus (Miracle); Nonviolence -- Biblical teaching