- Keith Akers
Keith Akers is an American advocate of
nonviolence ,simple living andChristian vegetarianism .Akers graduated from
Vanderbilt University in 1971 with B. A. (magna cum laude) inphilosophy and was a professionalcomputer programmer for many years. He is very active in the vegetarian community, as former president of both the Vegetarian Society of D. C. and the Vegetarian Society of Colorado, and as an officer in theInternational Vegetarian Union .He identifies his "debut in the field of religious controversy" to 1967, when he "delivered the 'youth sermon' for the First Baptist Church in Oak Ridge, Tennessee" and "shocked the congregation with the declaration that (based on bibleref|Matthew|25:31–40) religious belief is irrelevant to salvation."
Keith Akers believes that modern Christians would do well to imitate the
Ebionites in theirvegetarianism andpacifism , doctrines he regards as going back toJesus himself. Akers is a critic of "Pauline Christianity ", claiming that Paul distorted Jesus' message.Bibliography
*"The Lost Religion of Jesus: Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early Christianity" (New York: Lantern Books, 2000)
*"A Vegetarian Sourcebook: The Nutrition, Ecology, and Ethics of a Natural Foods Diet" (originally New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1983).ee also
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Christian pacifism External links
* [http://www.compassionatespirit.com/index.htm Compassionate Spirit]
* [http://www.vegetarianfriends.net/issue13.html#42 Book Review by Urrutia of "The Lost Religion of Jesus" by Keith Akers]
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