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Christian Attitudes to War, Peace and Revolution / John Howard Yoder ; Theodore J. Koontz and Andy Alexis-Baker, editors.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : BrazosPress, c2009.Description: 472 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781587432316 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.873 22 YOD
Contents:
Introduction -- Refining our typology on the ethics of war -- The pacifism of pre-Constantinian Christianity -- The meaning of the Constantinian shift -- The logic of the just war tradition -- Criteria of the just war tradition -- Interpreting the just war criteria -- The career of the just war theory -- The peace dimension of medieval moral concern -- The nonviolence of rabbinic Judaism -- The pacifism of the first Reformation -- Anabaptists in the continental Reformation -- The peace vision of Enlightenment humanism -- Quakerism in the Puritan Reformation -- Quakerism in early America: the holy experiment -- Pacifism in the nineteenth century -- Liberal Protestant pacifism -- Reinhold Niebuhr's "realist" critique -- Mennonites after Niebuhr -- Biblical realism and the politics of Jesus -- Other biblical themes -- Just war thinking revived -- The lessons of nonviolent experience -- Ecumenical theologies of revolution and liberation -- Varieties of contemporary Catholic peace concern -- Ecumenical conversations
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Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Books Bishop Bukenya Library Stephen Noll Collection 261.873 YOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 136934

Includes bibliographical references (p. 458-460) and indexes.

Introduction -- Refining our typology on the ethics of war -- The pacifism of pre-Constantinian Christianity -- The meaning of the Constantinian shift -- The logic of the just war tradition -- Criteria of the just war tradition -- Interpreting the just war criteria -- The career of the just war theory -- The peace dimension of medieval moral concern -- The nonviolence of rabbinic Judaism -- The pacifism of the first Reformation -- Anabaptists in the continental Reformation -- The peace vision of Enlightenment humanism -- Quakerism in the Puritan Reformation -- Quakerism in early America: the holy experiment -- Pacifism in the nineteenth century -- Liberal Protestant pacifism -- Reinhold Niebuhr's "realist" critique -- Mennonites after Niebuhr -- Biblical realism and the politics of Jesus -- Other biblical themes -- Just war thinking revived -- The lessons of nonviolent experience -- Ecumenical theologies of revolution and liberation -- Varieties of contemporary Catholic peace concern -- Ecumenical conversations

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