"These that have turned the world upside down," is what the Apostles Paul and Silas were called at Thessalonica. In Christianity's early days, the gospel of Jesus Christ was a revolutionary religion indeed.
It still is. Though Christianity has taken on age, respectability and powerand though some Christians seem to assume that God is always on the side of the status quothe basic teachings of Jesus still challenge the accepted ways of the world. Published last week was a book about five religious thinkers called Modern Christian Revolutionaries (Devin-Adair; $4), edited by British Catholic...