War And The Christian Conscience
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Author | : Fahey, Joseph J. |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2014-04-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608334694 |
This primer on war and the Christian conscience begins in an imaginary college classroom as students react to news that the draft has been reinstated. ""Why cant I finish college?"" asks one student. ""Why do I have to go?"" These urgent and personal questions offer the entry to a clear and comprehensive outline of the basic Christian responses to the problem of war. As Fahey shows, the Christian tradition has supplied a variety of answers, including pacifism, just war teaching, the ethic of ""total war,"" and the vision of a ""world community."" In the face of these different approaches, how are we to decide which one is right? And more basically, how does one go about forming ones personal conscience? For all who ponder these moral challenges--whether as young people facing the question of military service, or as counselors, chaplains, or teachers--this book offers an essential and practical guide.
Author | : Joseph Kip Kosek |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231144199 |
In response to the massive bloodshed that defined the twentieth century, American religious radicals developed a modern form of nonviolent protest, one that combined Christian principles with new uses of mass media. Greatly influenced by the ideas of Mohandas Gandhi, these "acts of conscience" included sit-ins, boycotts, labor strikes, and conscientious objection to war. Beginning with World War I and ending with the ascendance of Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph Kip Kosek traces the impact of A. J. Muste, Richard Gregg, and other radical Christian pacifists on American democratic theory and practice. These dissenters found little hope in the secular ideologies of Wilsonian Progressivism, revolutionary Marxism, and Cold War liberalism, all of which embraced organized killing at one time or another. The example of Jesus, they believed, demonstrated the immorality and futility of such violence under any circumstance and for any cause. Yet the theories of Christian nonviolence are anything but fixed. For decades, followers have actively reinterpreted the nonviolent tradition, keeping pace with developments in politics, technology, and culture. Tracing the rise of militant nonviolence across a century of industrial conflict, imperialism, racial terror, and international warfare, Kosek recovers radical Christians' remarkable stance against the use of deadly force, even during World War II and other seemingly just causes. His research sheds new light on an interracial and transnational movement that posed a fundamental, and still relevant, challenge to the American political and religious mainstream.
Author | : Andrew David Naselli |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2016-04-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433550776 |
There is an increasing number of divisive issues in our world today, all of which require great discernment. Thankfully, God has given each of us a conscience to align our wills with his and help us make wise decisions. Examining all thirty New Testament passages that touch on the conscience, Andrew Naselli and J. D. Crowley help readers get to know their consciences—a largely neglected topic—and engage with other Christians who hold different convictions. Offering guiding principles and answering critical questions about how the conscience works and how to care for it, this book shows how the conscience impacts our approach to church unity, ministry, and more.
Author | : Albert Marrin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
"Gateway edition." Bibliography: p. 335-342.
Author | : Michael Howard |
Publisher | : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781850658917 |
Sir Michael Howard traces the pattern in the attitudes of liberal-minded men and women in the face of war, from Erasmus to the Americans after Vietnam, and concludes that peacemaking is a task which has to be tackled afresh every day of our lives.
Author | : Arthur F. Holmes |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2005-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
This collection of classic and contemporary writings deals with the morality of war from a variety of Christian perspectives.
Author | : Paul Ramsey |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780742522329 |
With a new foreword by noted theologian and ethicist Stanley Hauerwas, this classic text on war and the ethics of modern statecraft written at the height of the Vietnam era in 1968 speaks to a new generation of readers. Characterized by a sophisticated yet back-to-basics approach, The Just War begins with the assumption that force is a fact in political life which must either be reckoned with or succumbed to. It then grapples with modern challenges to traditional moral principles of "just conduct" in war, the "morality of deterrence," and a "just war theory of statecraft."
Author | : Paul Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Peace |
ISBN | : 9781931038584 |
Once the Pentecostal peace witness extended throughout the movement and around the world-but was eventually muted and almost completely lost in the American Assemblies of God. This book, which is "gripping, powerful, and prophetic," says Amos Yong, tells the story of that shift. "The antiwar, Christian, pacifist sentiments of the Assemblies of God that Alexander describes . . . juxtaposed in close proximity to their pro-war and anti-pacifist passion and identification with America . . . is simply striking," comments J. Denny Weaver, in the C. Henry Smith Series Editor's Foreword. The implications, observes Cheryl Bridges Johns, Professor of Christian Formation and Discipleship, Church of God, "are worth examining by all traditions asking, 'Will our children have faith?' At the same time, mentions Harvey Cox, Hollis Professor of Religion, Harvard Divinity School, Alexander's narrative "suggests that Pentecostals may yet reclaim this invaluable element of their heritage."
Author | : Robert G. Clouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Robert G. Clouse presents four different viewpoints on the Christian's involvement in war: Herman A. Hoyt on biblical nonresistance, Myron S. Augsburger on Christian pacifism, Arthur F. Holmes on just war and Harold O. J. Brown on preventive war.
Author | : Michel Rosenfeld |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 515 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107173302 |
Explores the multifaceted debate on the interconnection between conscientious objections, religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities.