Plough has done scholars, pastors, and laypersons all a great service by reprinting this classic. Not everyone will agree with every detail, but all will feel the compelling force of Trocmé’s cumulative case. This is a book worth pondering at length.

Craig L. Blomberg, Denver Seminary

Trocmé has the prophetic gift of bypassing doctrinal fluff and cutting to the heart of Jesus’ message: a stark call for repentance, love, and socio-economic change. Read him with caution: this book may change your life.

Donald Kraybill, author, The Upside-Down Kingdom

In a time when the church is being seduced by the concentration of power and violence, this book gives us the ethic we need to remain faithful.

Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary

This book – and especially this newly expanded edition – deserves to be more widely known. Trocmé’s focus saves any account of salvation from pietistic distortion…His comparison of Gandhi and Jesus is also extremely important.

Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity School

One of the most important writings on nonviolence ever penned. Trocmé not only laid out his principles with astonishing clarity, but he lived them out at great risk. I can think of no better place to begin the study of this timely subject.

Walter Wink, author, Jesus and Nonviolence