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The Nonviolent Coming of God
Author | : James W. Douglass |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2006-04-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781597526111 |
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In this, his most eloquent and far-reaching book, James Douglass explores the haunting parallels between the situation of Jesus and our situation today. Jesus, who lived in anticipation of the impending destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans and suffered from this vision, called urgently for a radical conversion to avert the tragedy. The choice then -- as now -- was between nonviolence and nonexistence. This choice is even more stark in the nuclear age. Whether describing the visions of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Archbishop Romero, or the witness of his own community against the White Train carrying warheads across the country, Douglass can discern the sights of a second coming, a nonviolent coming of God. The possibility for a different future depends on a different kind of humanity, renewed and transformed by the nonviolent cross of Christ.
The Nonviolent God
Author | : J. Denny Weaver |
Publsiher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780802869234 |
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This bold new statement on the nonviolence of God challenges long-standing assumptions of divine violence in theology, the violent God pictured in the Old Testament, and the supposed violence of God in Revelation. In The Nonviolent God J. Denny Weaver argues that since God is revealed in Jesus, the nonviolence of Jesus most truly reflects the character of God. According to Weaver, the way Christians live -- Christian ethics -- is an ongoing expression of theology. Consequently, he suggests positive images of the reign of God made visible in the narrative of Jesus -- nonviolent practice, forgiveness and restorative justice, issues of racism and sexism, and more -- in order that Christians might live more peacefully.
The Non Violent Cross
Author | : James W. Douglass |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2006-04-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781597526081 |
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Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution
Author | : André Trocmé |
Publsiher | : The Plough Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781570755385 |
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André Trocmé of Le Chambon is famous for his role in saving thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II. But his bold deeds did not spring from a void. They were rooted in his understanding of Jesus’ way of nonviolence – an understanding that gave him the remarkable insights contained in this long out-of-print classic. In this book, you’ll encounter a Jesus you may have never met before – a Jesus who not only calls for spiritual transformation, but for practical changes that answer the most perplexing political, economic, and social problems of our time.
Ren Girard and the Nonviolent God
Author | : Scott Cowdell |
Publsiher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2018-11-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780268104566 |
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In his latest book on the ground-breaking work of René Girard (1923–2015), Scott Cowdell sets out a new perspective on mimetic theory and theology: he develops the proposed connection between Girardian thought and theological dramatic theory in new directions, engaging with issues of evolutionary suffering and divine providence, inclusive Christian uniqueness, God's judgment, nonviolent atonement, and the spiritual life. Cowdell reveals a powerful, illuminating, and life-enhancing synergy between mimetic theory and Christianity at its best. With religion widely seen as increasingly violent and intransigent, the true Christian emphasis on divine solidarity, mercy, and healing is in danger of being lost. René Girard provides a countervailing voice. He emerges from Cowdell's study not only as a necessary dialogue partner for theology today, but as a global prophet offering hope and challenge in equal measure. René Girard was a Catholic cultural theorist whose mimetic theory achieved a powerful symbiosis of social science with scripture and theology, yielding a unique perspective on humanity’s origins, violent history, and future prospects. Cowdell maps this synergy, revealing theological themes present from Girard’s earliest writings to the latest, less-familiar publications. He resolves a number of theological challenges to Girard’s work, engaging mimetic theory in fruitful dialogue with key themes, movements, and thinkers in theology today. Bringing a distinctive Anglican voice to a largely Catholic debate, Cowdell gives an orthodox theological account of Girard’s intellectual achievement, bearing witness to Christianity’s nonviolent God. This book will be of great interest to theologians, seminarians and clergy of all traditions, Girardians, and Christian peace activists.
The God of Peace
Author | : John Dear |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2005-03-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781725213418 |
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The God of peace is never glorified by human violence. Thomas Merton 'The God of Peace', John Dear's classic theology of nonviolence, broke new ground when it was first published as a breakthrough toward a new understanding of scripture, theology, social concerns and churches issues--from the perspective of Gospel nonviolence, in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dorothy Day. This ground-breaking study begins not just with the culture of violence, but the nonviolence of God, and the revolutionary nonviolence of Jesus. From the start, John Dear explores traditional areas of theology, such as Christology, Trinitarian Theology, anthropology, sin, redemption, theodicy, salvation, ecclesiology, eschatology, spirituality, liturgy, Catholic social teaching, the just war theory,, feminism, liberation theology and the consistent ethic of life. This text will help university and theology students pursuing the theology and spirituality of nonviolence, as well as ordinary Christians and activists interested in the crucial connection between war and violence, and God and nonviolence.
Identifying the Image of God
Author | : Dan McKanan |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2002-11-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0198033222 |
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Between 1820 and 1860, American social reformers invited all people to identify God's image in the victims of war, slavery, and addiction. Identifying the Image of God traces the theme of identification--and its liberal Christian roots--through the literature of social reform, focusing on sentimental novels, temperance tales, and slave narratives, and invites contemporary activists to revive the "politics of identification."
Stricken by God
Author | : Brad Jersak,Michael Hardin |
Publsiher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2007-09-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : UVA:X030249106 |
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"Foreword by Willard Swartley"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.