Social Change without Violence

Abstract

This essay relates a concrete historical case in which an economically advantaged group of people, by their own volition and without a bloody revolution, gave heed to and acted upon the frustrations of their disadvantaged neighbors. Consequently, it represents a challenge to those who maintain that significant social change can only be achieved by violent revolutionary struggle. But the author goes on to point out the broader missiological implications of the migrating Christian community model by which, paradoxically in this case, two tribes of hunters and gatherers were transformed by their own motivation into Christianized settlers.