"As Phillips Brooks, a Protestant pastor in the late 19th century, wrote: "In the best sense of the word, Jesus was a radical.His religion has so long been identified with conservatismthat it is almost startling sometimes to remember that all the conservatives of his own times were against him; that it was the young, free, restless, sanguine, progressive part of the people who flocked to him.""

'America's best theologian' walks pacifist road