Reviews for Assessment for decision

The average rating for Assessment for decision based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-11-25 00:00:00 Tom Soule I went to Catholic school, so I'm not religious. But, THIS is the book I should have been assigned in Catholic School, instead of the awful dogma that is taught instead. Jay Haley does the work that more authors should do I my opinion. He does without the value judgments and ideology associated with a subject people think they already know and presents it in a useful context. In this case, Haley focuses on the strategy and tactics Jesus used to form his organization and take hold of the Roman Empire. From defining the term power tactic, to analyzing the power of the surrender tactic (turn the other cheek), to Jesus final strategic calculation (or perhaps, miscalculation) in his arrest and execution, Haley covers Jesus' entire gambit, focusing on what he gained strategically from his actions and what we can learn from them. The most useful strategy Jesus used when first starting his movement was he framed his radical movement within the existing framework of the society in which he lived. Instead of claiming he was starting a new religion, he instead insisted his ideas weren't, "deviations from the established religion but a more true expression of the ideas of that religion." After reading The Power Tactics of Jesus Christ, a logical next step would be Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. I saw shades of the great community organizer throughout the essay, making me think he did Haley's work years before for his own study.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-11-25 00:00:00 Barry F. Puschauver I strictly picked this up for the title essay after reading 48 Laws of Power (it was part of the bibliography). Would have loved for this to have been a more expanded work. A thoughtful convo of theology, power, and the impacts of the power tactics of Jesus on future leaders. At times it felt as though the essay was written strictly to fulfill a hypothesis.