Nonviolent action : what Christian ethics demands but most Christians have never really tried /
Sider, Ronald J,
Nonviolent action : what Christian ethics demands but most Christians have never really tried / [print] Ronald J. Sider. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Brazos Press, (c)2015. - xvi, 191 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographies and index.
Part I. Proving it works: from early beginnings to stunning success -- Early developments -- Gandhi: defeating the British Empire -- Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhian nonviolence: the battle against American racism -- Nonviolent intervention in guerrilla warfare -- Wheelchairs versus tanks -- Part II. Defeating the Soviet Empire -- Solidarity: a trade union and the Pope versus Communist dictators -- The revolution of the candles: the nonviolent overthrow of East German Communists -- Part III. Recent victories of a growing movement -- "Gather the women to pray for peace": Liberian women overthrow a dictator -- Nonviolence in the Arab Spring -- Intervening, accompanying, and reporting: the growth of peacemaker teams -- Part IV. The time to act -- Truly testing the possibilities of nonviolent action: for the first time in Christian history -- The moral equivalent of war.
A noted theologian and bestselling author shows how nonviolent action has been practiced in history and in current social-political situations to promote peace and oppose injustice.
9781587433665
2014040103
Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
BT736.S568.S534 2015 BT736
Nonviolent action : what Christian ethics demands but most Christians have never really tried / [print] Ronald J. Sider. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Brazos Press, (c)2015. - xvi, 191 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographies and index.
Part I. Proving it works: from early beginnings to stunning success -- Early developments -- Gandhi: defeating the British Empire -- Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhian nonviolence: the battle against American racism -- Nonviolent intervention in guerrilla warfare -- Wheelchairs versus tanks -- Part II. Defeating the Soviet Empire -- Solidarity: a trade union and the Pope versus Communist dictators -- The revolution of the candles: the nonviolent overthrow of East German Communists -- Part III. Recent victories of a growing movement -- "Gather the women to pray for peace": Liberian women overthrow a dictator -- Nonviolence in the Arab Spring -- Intervening, accompanying, and reporting: the growth of peacemaker teams -- Part IV. The time to act -- Truly testing the possibilities of nonviolent action: for the first time in Christian history -- The moral equivalent of war.
A noted theologian and bestselling author shows how nonviolent action has been practiced in history and in current social-political situations to promote peace and oppose injustice.
9781587433665
2014040103
Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
BT736.S568.S534 2015 BT736