Must Christianity be violent? : reflections on history, practice, and theology / edited by Kenneth R. Chase and Alan Jacobs. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Brazos Press, (c)2003.Description: 256 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
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Contents:
Violence of the conquistadores and prophetic indignation / Luis N. Rivera-Pagan -- Is God violent? : theological options in the antislavery movement / Dan McKanan -- Christians as rescuers during the Holocaust / David P. Gushee -- Have Christians done more harm than good? / Mark A. Noll
How should we then teach American history? : a perspective of constructive nonviolence / James C. Juhnke -- Christian discourse and the humility of peace / Kenneth R. Chase -- Jesus and just peacemaking theory / Glen Stassen
Explaining Christian nonviolence : notes for a conversation with John Milbank / Stanley Hauerwas -- Violence : double passivity / John Milbank. Addendum : testing pacifism : questions for John Milbank -- Christian peace : a conversation between Stanley Hauerwas and John Milbank / John Milbank and Stanley Hauerwas -- Afterword / Alan Jacobs.
Subject: The Crusades, The Conquest of the Americas, U.S. Slavery, The Jewish Holocaust; mention of these events evokes a variety of responses from Christians, including guilt, defensiveness, and bewilderment. Given such a tangled historical relationship to aggression and injustice, how can Christians answer those who argue that our faith is inherently violent, or that Christian doctrine inevitable lead to sacrifice, conquest, and war? This book provides "specific responses to these arguments. Divided into histories, practices, and theologies, the essays explore what one contributor calls just peacemaking. The contributors explore the history of Christian violence and advocate the need for an uncompromised biblical theory in our search for peace".
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Based on a conference held Mar. 15-17, 2000 at Wheaton College.

Introduction : the ethical challenge / Kenneth R. Chase

Section One: Histories

The First Crusade : some theological and historical context / Joseph H. Lynch -- Violence of the conquistadores and prophetic indignation / Luis N. Rivera-Pagan -- Is God violent? : theological options in the antislavery movement / Dan McKanan -- Christians as rescuers during the Holocaust / David P. Gushee -- Have Christians done more harm than good? / Mark A. Noll

Section Two: Practices

Beyond complicity : the challenges for Christianity after the Holocaust / Victoria Barnett -- How should we then teach American history? : a perspective of constructive nonviolence / James C. Juhnke -- Christian discourse and the humility of peace / Kenneth R. Chase -- Jesus and just peacemaking theory / Glen Stassen

Section Three: Theories

Violence and the atonement / Richard J. Mouw -- Explaining Christian nonviolence : notes for a conversation with John Milbank / Stanley Hauerwas -- Violence : double passivity / John Milbank. Addendum : testing pacifism : questions for John Milbank -- Christian peace : a conversation between Stanley Hauerwas and John Milbank / John Milbank and Stanley Hauerwas -- Afterword / Alan Jacobs.

The Crusades, The Conquest of the Americas, U.S. Slavery, The Jewish Holocaust; mention of these events evokes a variety of responses from Christians, including guilt, defensiveness, and bewilderment. Given such a tangled historical relationship to aggression and injustice, how can Christians answer those who argue that our faith is inherently violent, or that Christian doctrine inevitable lead to sacrifice, conquest, and war? This book provides "specific responses to these arguments. Divided into histories, practices, and theologies, the essays explore what one contributor calls just peacemaking. The contributors explore the history of Christian violence and advocate the need for an uncompromised biblical theory in our search for peace".

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