Secular Nonviolence And The Theo Drama Of Peace

Author : Layton Boyd Friesen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056770405X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secular Nonviolence and the Theo-Drama of Peace written by Layton Boyd Friesen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a five-century tradition of Christian pacifism no longer needs Jesus to support nonviolence? Why does secularity cause this dilemma for Mennonites in their theology of peace? Layton Boyd Friesen offers an ancient theology and spirituality of incarnation as the church's response to the non-resistance of Christ. He explores three key aspects of von Balthasar's Christology to help Mennonite peace theology regain its momentum in the secular age with a contemplative union with Christ. This volume argues that the way to regain a Christ-formed pacifism within secularity is to contemplate and enter the mystery unveiled in the Chalcedonian Definition of Christ, as interpreted by Hans Urs von Balthasar. In this mystery, the believer is drawn into real-time participation in Christ's encounter with the secular world.

Author : Maxwell Kennel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004546448
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ontologies of Violence written by Maxwell Kennel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontologies of Violence provides a new paradigm for understanding the concept of violence through comparative interpretations of French philosopher Jacques Derrida, philosophical theologians in the Mennonite pacifist tradition, and Grace M. Jantzen’s feminist philosophy of religion. By drawing out and challenging the remarkably similar priorities shared by its three sources, and by challenging the assumption that differences necessarily lead to displacement, Ontologies of Violence provides a critical theory of violence by treating it as a diagnostic concept that implies the violation of value-laden boundaries.

Author : Rachel M. MacNair
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144083539X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religions and Nonviolence written by Rachel M. MacNair and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the nonviolence traditions in all the major religions as well as the contributions of religious traditions to major nonviolent practices, this book addresses theories of nonviolence, considers each religion individually, and highlights what discrete religious perspectives have in common. Covering all the major-and some of the larger minor-religions of the world, Religions and Nonviolence: The Rise of Effective Advocacy for Peace examines the rich history of how human thinking on nonviolence has developed and what each religion offers to the theory and practice of nonviolence, providing a counterpoint to the perspective that religion has largely inspired violence and intolerance. It also traces the contributions of religious traditions to secular nonviolent practices, recognizes and explains why religion has historically inspired violence, and provides additional resources for investigating the crossroads of religion and advocacy of nonviolence and peace. The author addresses the nonviolence traditions in religions such as Bahai, Buddhism, Christianity, Ethical Atheism, the First Nations of North America, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Tenrikyo, and Revitalized Paganism. Ancient religions with important contributions to nonviolence-Zoroastrianism, Taoism, and Jainism-receive attention, as do Mo Tse and other Chinese philosophers as well as Pythagoras and other classical Greek thinkers. Students of religion, history of religion, sociology, or psychology will find this book key to achieving a balanced and therefore more accurate understanding of both religion and history. General readers will gain insights into the commonalities among different religions as well as each major religion's historical and current stances on issues of violence, such as human or animal sacrifice, slavery, war, and the death penalty.

Author : David C. Cramer
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 149343473X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence written by David C. Cramer and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian nonviolence is not a settled position but a vibrant and living tradition. This book offers a concise introduction to diverse approaches to, proponents of, and resources for this tradition. It explores the myriad biblical, theological, and practical dimensions of Christian nonviolence as represented by a variety of twentieth- and twenty-first-century thinkers and movements, including previously underrepresented voices. The authors invite readers to explore this tradition and discover how they might live out the gospel in our modern world.

Author : James W. Douglass
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597526088
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Non-Violent Cross written by James W. Douglass and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the ten best religious books of 1968 . . . a fascinating proposal of revolutionary action through non-violence from the Judeo-Christian faith and the experiments in truth of Gandhi. 'New Book Review' 'The Non-Violent Cross' was a crucial text to push me into becoming a pacifist. It remains as relevant today as it was when first published in 1966. Douglass was in conversation not only with Catholic perspectives but also John Howard Yoder. Indeed he was among the first to show us how the most orthodox Christian claims committed the church to the practice of non-violence. We are in Wipf & Stock's debt for bringing the book back into print. Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University It will be Jim's reflections on nonviolence and just war theory for which he will be remembered best. And it is here that his language stretches, bends, and breaks under the strain of the inexplicable. For he is not just settling arguments. He is trying to convey the meaning of the kingdom of Reality which will be the final victory of Truth in history. If that kingdom is ever to come, it will be people like Jim who blazed the way. Walter Wink Not only is this book the most thoroughgoing treatment to date of non-violence...but in its analyses of the current scene it is also a 'tract for the times.' The Christian Century

Author : John Howard Yoder
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 9781441207982
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War of the Lamb written by John Howard Yoder and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Howard Yoder was one of the major theologians of the late twentieth century. Before his death, he planned the essays and structure of this book, which he intended to be his last work. Now two leading interpreters of Yoder bring that work to fruition. The book is divided into three sections: pacifism, just war theory, and just peacemaking theory. The volume crystallizes Yoder's argument that his proposed ethics is not sectarian and a matter of withdrawal. He also clearly argues that Christian just war and Christian pacifist traditions are basically compatible--and more specifically, that the Christian just war tradition itself presumes against all violence.

Author : John Dear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The God of Peace written by John Dear and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fruit of committed action as well as study, The God of Peace represents the first effort to outline a systematic theology beginning with the insight that God is nonviolent. This insight has been embodied in our time by figures like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dorothy Day. Dear shows what Christian faith looks like when nonviolence is treated not simply as a subtopic of ethics or a political tactic, but as a hermeneutic lens through which every aspect of traditional Christian theology may be viewed. After establishing his methodology, Dear explores every aspect of traditional theology: the identity of God, the person of Jesus (prophet of nonviolence), Christ (Incarnation of nonviolent love), the nature and meaning of the Trinity (the nonviolent community at the heart of reality), as well as doctrines of creation, sin and redemption, theodicy, salvation, the church, eschatology, spirituality, and liturgy. Finally, Dear addresses Catholic social teaching and the "just war" theology, feminist and liberation theologies, and the consistent ethic of life.

Author : Brayton Shanley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621895750
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Many Sides of Peace written by Brayton Shanley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Many Sides of Peace comes out of thirty years of living in a Catholic lay community, attempting to understand and practice the compelling ideas of gospel-centered nonviolent love. The book attempts to speak to the signs of these times for those who seek peace and liberation from both war and the looming ecological Armageddon. It is a faith based on the revelation of Jesus and the conviction that a love that is nonviolent will save this environmentally threatened planet and its warlike people from an "at risk" status to a more peaceful and sustainable one. This is a message of hope, a "how to live" spiritual manual for human/earth survival that can help create a bold and beautiful world.

Author : Dennis, Marie
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608337367
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing Peace written by Dennis, Marie and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by leading peacemakers such as Lisa Sowle Cahill, Terrence J. Rynne, John Dear and Ken Utican, Rose Marie Berger, and Maria J. Stephan advance the conversation about the practice of nonviolence in a violent world, Jesus and nonviolence, traditional Catholic teaching on nonviolence, and reflections on the future of Catholic teaching. The book concludes with Pope Francis's historic Message for World Peace Day in 2017.

Author : Krister Stendahl
Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 1612618707
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roots of Violence written by Krister Stendahl and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important work takes an age-old question, religious violence, and makes it new again.