| Description |
xix, 348 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-339) and index. |
| Contents |
Hebrew Scriptures : Isaiah 11:6-9 ; Jeremiah 6:13-14 ; Micah 4:1-4 -- Living toward a vision / Walter Brueggemann -- Sermon on the Mount : Matthew 5:1-12 ; Matthew 5:38-42 -- Jesus and nonviolence : a third way / Walter Wink -- New Testament texts : Romans 5:8-10, 12:14, 16a, 17-21 ; Hebrews 10:32-34 ; 1 Peter 2:21, 23 -- Violence in defense of justice / Richard B. Hays -- First apology ; Dialogue with Trypho / Justin Martyr -- A plea concerning Christians / Athenagorus -- Letter to Diognetus -- Apology ; On idolatry ; The shows ; On the crown ; On Marcion ; On patience / Tertullian -- Against Celsus ; Homilies on Joshua / Origen -- To Donatus ; On the advantage of patience / Cyprian -- Apostolic tradition -- Early Christian martyrs : The acts of Maximilian ; The acts of Marcellus -- Against the heathen / Arnobius -- The divine institutes / Lactantius -- Canon 13 / Basil of Caesaria ; Nonviolence and peace in early and Eastern Christianity / John Anthony McGuckin -- On riches / Pelagius -- Poem 17 ; Letters 18 and 25 / Paulinus of Nola -- Life of St. Martin / Sulpicius Severus -- The rule of St. Benedict / Benedict of Nursia -- Penitentials : Penitential of Finnian (525-550) ; Penitential of Theodore (668-690) ; Penitential ascribed to Bede (c. 750) -- Commentary on the Rule of Saint Benedict / Smaragdus -- Peace of God -- The martyrdom of Boris and Gleb -- Truce of God : The earliest Truce of God, proclaimed in the Diocese of Elne, 1027 ; Truce of God, proclaimed at the Council of Narbonne, August 25, 1054 ; Canons of the Second Lateran Council, 1123 -- Letter to Bishop Olderic / Peter Damian -- The earlier rule 1209/10-1221 ; The canticle of the creatures (1225) / Francis of Assisi -- Short work in three parts / Humbert of Romans -- The twelve conclusions of the Lollards -- On the triple division of society / Peter Chelcicky -- The education of a Christian prince / Desiderius Erasmus -- Letter to Thomas Müntzer / Conrad Grebel -- Introduction to wisdom / Juan Luis Vives -- Brotherly union of a number of children of God concerning seven articles (The Schleitheim confession) -- Letter to Johann Kuna von Kunstadt / Jakob Hutter -- Account of our religion, doctrine and faith / Peter Riedemann -- Reply to false accusations / Menno Simons -- The only way / Bartolomé de Las Casas -- The true levellers standard / Gerrard Winstanley -- Paper to friends to keep out of wars and fights / George Fox -- Epistle of love and friendly advice / Robert Barclay -- An essay toward the present and future peace of Europe / William Penn -- Journal of John Woolman / John Woolman -- A short and sincere declaration / Pennsylvania Mennonites and German Baptists -- War inconsistent with the religion of Jesus Christ / David Dodge -- Sermon against war / Priscilla Cadwallader -- Nonresistance Society : declaration of principles / William Lloyd Garrison -- My opposition to war / Frederick Douglass -- Christian nonresistance / Adin Ballou -- An address on war / Alexander Campbell -- Narrative of Sojourner Truth / Sojourner Truth -- Nonresistance, or The spirit of Christianity restored / William C. Thurman -- Hostile brotherhood / Joshua Blanchard -- The subject of peace is taking hold / Lucretia Mott -- Periodical war madness / Charles Spurgeon -- Good news / Dwight L. Moody -- The subjective for social settlements / Jane Addams -- Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby / Leo Tolstoy -- Resist not evil / Clarence Darrow -- The awful war seems near / A.J. Tomlinson -- A statement to my people on the eve of war / John Haynes Holmes -- Resolution concerning the attitude of the General Council of the Assemblies of God toward any military service which involves the actual participation in the destruction of human life / General Council of the Assemblies of God -- Love your enemies? / Ammon Hennacy -- Peace tactics and a racial minority / Howard Thurman -- The unknown soldier / Harry Emerson Fosdick -- The church and war / Evelyn Underhill -- Training / Muriel Lester -- The Christian's dilemma / Georgia Harkness -- If America is drawn into the war, can you, as a Christian, participate in it, or support it? / Ernest Fremont Tittle -- Our country passes from undeclared war to declared war; we continue our Christian pacifist stand / Dorothy Day -- Letter to Local Draft Board No. 63 / Bayard Rustin -- Message to the Church of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon / André Trocmé -- The bells of Nagasaki / Takashi Nagai -- We have abandoned war / Toyohiko Kagawa -- Theology of despair: an open letter to Reinhold Niebuhr / A.J. Muste -- The faith of a Christian pacifist / Kirby Page -- Peace is the will of God / Historic peace churches and the International Fellowship of Reconciliation Committee -- Nonviolence and racial justice / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Statement by Marjorie Swann, participant in Omaha action / Marjorie Swann -- Pacem in terris / Pope John XXIII -- Blessed are the meek: the roots of Christian nonviolence / Thomas Merton -- The religion of Black power / Vincent Harding -- The nonviolent cross / James Douglass -- Our apologies, good friends / Daniel Berrigan -- Letter from Delano / César Chávez -- Violence : reflections from a Christian perspective / Jacques Ellul -- Authority over death / William Stringfellow -- An open letter to a bishop / Philip Berrigan -- Spiral of violence ; The limitations of violence / Dom Helder Camara -- Nonviolence and feminism / Shelly Douglass -- It's a sin to build a nuclear weapon / Richard McSorley -- Last Sunday sermon / Oscar Romero -- We could not do this / Daniel Berrigan -- The re-creation of relationship, interpersonal and global / Elise Boulding -- Social action and the need for prayer / Dorothy Friesen -- God's people reconciling / Ronald J. Sider -- Peacemaking: the virtue of the church / Stanley Hauerwas -- A theological critique of violence / John Howard Yoder -- On the care of creation: an evangelical declaration on the care of creation -- Just peacemaking / Duane Friesen and Glen Stassen -- Compassion and nonviolence: a spiritual path / Carter Heyward -- Peace be with you: justified warfare or the way of nonviolence / Eileen Egan -- The journey toward reconciliation / John Paul Lederach -- Violence and nonviolence / Dorothee Soelle -- Forgiveness, reconciliation, and justice: a Christian contribution to a more peaceful environment / Miroslav Volf -- Compassion and nonviolence from New York to Afghanistan: reflections after September 11th / John Dear -- Letter to Jerry Falwell / Mel White -- Death in disguise / Donald Kraybill -- Confessing Christ in a world of nonviolence / Richard B. Hays, George Hunsinger, Richard Pierard, Glen Stassen, and Jim Wallis -- Salt of the earth : an Orthodox Christian approach to peacemaking / Jim Forest -- One mean Mennonite mama: a pacifist parent faces her anger / Valerie Weaver-Zercher -- The politics of love and war: what is our responsibility? / Robert Johansen -- Interrogation and martyrdom / Gene Stolzfus -- Policing and Christian forgiveness / Andy Alexis-Baker -- A prayer for peace / Tracy Wenger Sadd. |
| Subject |
Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.
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Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.
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| Added Author |
Long, Michael G.
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| ISBN |
9781570759222 paperback $40.00 |
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1570759227 paperback |
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