Download or read book The Heart of the War written by Julian Kennedy Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Christian the Church and Causes of War written by Tapani Kristian Saarinen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Council of Churches' (WCC) Decade to Overcome Violence between 2001-2010 included theological reflection and work to overcome all violence. The results can be read in a document called Ecumenical Call to Just Peace (ECJP). ECJP presents a call to overcome violence and establish Just Peace in four distinct contexts: community, ecology, economy and international politics. As causes of violence differ depending on context, however, can such a holistic approach provide a workable solution for various contexts and their specific challenges? My study focuses on the possible contributions of ECJP's teaching for the states as actors in international politics. The purpose of my study is to analyze and assess ECJP from the perspective of the causes of war, especially as such causes have been investigated by realist theories of international relations (IR). I transfer the IR approach which unites work for peace and analysis of the causes of war to the study of ecumenical teaching in ECJP. By placing the ecumenical teaching on Just Peace within the scrutiny of IR theory, my study tests the workability of ECJP's teaching for states as actors in international politics. The results of my study show that ECJP's teaching does not provide a workable plan to overcome wars and to establish Just Peace between states. There are four main reasons for this: Firstly, ECJP's teaching on war's causes is limited. Secondly, ECJP's elaboration of international politics is limited. Thirdly, ECJP's elaboration of international actors is limited, and fourthly, ECJP's teaching and policy proposals rely on a theology of Just Peace, rather than a political understanding of the challenges which need to be overcome. My conclusion is, that WCC's Just Peace suffers from too wide a scope. Without analyzing properly the challenges of a specific context, ECJP is not able to provide workable solutions for that context. A more focused Just Peace should prioritize those contexts, where Christians and churches have real power to make a change.
Download or read book War written by Robert G. Clouse and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Christian Man the Church and the War written by Robert Elliott Speer and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Attitude of the Church Towards War written by Herbert Edward Ryle and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Accordancy of War with the Principles of Christianity written by Jonathan Dymond and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The War and Its Issues written by John Oman and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1916 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making War and Making Peace written by Dennis Byler and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-06-13 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participation in warfare is now so fully a part of the majority Christian heritage that it is hard for most Christians to imagine anything else. Catholics and Protestants of all the major denominations hold to the theory which justifies Christian participation in warfare. In holding to this theory, the vast majority of Christians have followed Augustine, a bishop in north Africa at the beginning of the fifth century. They have developed an informal system for determining when it is justified and necessary for Christians to kill other human beings. Following this line of reasoning, Christians have participated in revolutions, wars of national defense, wars of conquest and genocide, wars of religious intolerance, and wars caused by mistakes and misunderstandings. At the same time, however, small numbers of Christians have refused to kill other human beings. They have based this on the demands of the gospel of Jesus Christ, who laid down his own life instead of punishing the enemies of his people. These Christians continue to believe that prayer and selfless obedience to God's way of peace and love have a greater influence on the final outcome of events than do bullets and bombs. "Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God." (Psalm 20:7, NIV)
Download or read book For God s Sake written by Antony Loewenstein and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Australian thinkers come together to ask and answer the big questions, such as: What is the nature of the universe? Doesn't religion cause most of the conflict in the world? and Where do we find hope? We are introduced to the detail of different belief systems - Judaism, Christianity, Islam - and to the argument that atheism, like organised religion, has its own compelling logic. And we gain insight into the life events that led each author to their current position. Jane Caro flirted briefly with spiritual belief, inspired by 19th century literary heroines such as Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontë sisters. Antony Lowenstein is proudly culturally, yet unconventionally, Jewish. Simon Smart is firmly and resolutely a Christian, but one who has had some of his most profound spiritual moments while surfing. Rachel Woodlock grew up in the alternative embrace of Baha'i belief but became entranced by its older parent religion, Islam. Provocative, informative and passionately argued, For God's Sake encourages us to accept religious differences but to also challenge more vigorously the beliefs that create discord.
Download or read book The Faith and the War written by Frederick John Foakes-Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christianity and War written by Conference on Christian Politics, Economics and Citizenship. Commission on Christianity and War and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War its causes and effects as viewed in the light of the New Church A sermon preached before the congregation of the New Church in Cross Street Hatton Garden on the day set apart for prayer and humiliation on account of the war written by William BRUCE (Minister at the New Jerusalem Church in Edinburgh.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gods of War written by Meic Pearse and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative book, historian Meic Pearse debunks the common misconception that religion causes war. He argues that while religion is often a significant generator of armed conflict both in the past and in the present, the two principal causes of human warfare are in fact culture and greed for territory, resources or power. Since culture and greed often clothe themselves in religion, wars fought for culture often appear to be fought for religion. With keen analysis of global history and current events, Pearse shows how irreligion has produced far bloodier wars than religion and how global secularism itself does violence to religion and traditional cultures. Ultimately, throughout history warfare has been waged over the shape of society itself. A crisis in meaning leads people to fight for what they fear may be lost. For a world weary of war, Pearse points beyond both cultural and secular metanarratives to an alternative hope. Market/Audience Church leaders Laypeople Evangelists and missionaries Seminary students and professors Features and Benefits Provides a global historical perspective on war, religion and culture Evenhanded and broad in scope Examines both historical and contemporary examples
Download or read book War Peace and Christianity written by J. Daryl Charles and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With issues of war and peace at the forefront of current events, an informed Christian response is needed. This timely volume answers 104 questions from a just-war perspective, offering thoughtful yet succinct answers. Ranging from the theoretical to the practical, the volume looks at how the just-war perspective relates to the philosopher, historian, statesman, theologian, combatant, and individual—with particular emphases on its historical development and application to contemporary geopolitical challenges. Forgoing ideological extremes, Charles and Demy give much attention to the biblical teaching on the subject as they provide moral guidance. A valuable resource for considering the ethical issues relating to war, Christians will find this book's user-friendly format a helpful starting point for discussion.
Download or read book War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ written by David Low Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God and War written by Tom Lawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite narratives of secularization, it appears that the British public persistently pay attention to clerical opinion and continually resort to popular expressions of religious faith, not least in time of war. From the throngs of men who gathered to hear the Bishop of London preach recruiting sermons during the First World War, to the attention paid to Archbishop Williams' words of conscience on Iraq, clerical rhetoric remains resonant. For the countless numbers who attended National Days of Prayer during the Second World War, and for the many who continue to find the Remembrance Day service a meaningful ritual, civil religious events provide a source of meaningful ceremony and a focus of national unity. War and religion have been linked throughout the twentieth century and this book explores these links: taking the perspective of the 'home front' rather than the battlefield. Exploring the views and accounts of Anglican clerics on the issue of warfare and international conflict across the century, the authors explore the church's stance on the causes, morality and conduct of warfare; issues of pacifism, obliteration bombing, nuclear possession and deterrence, retribution, forgiveness and reconciliation, and the spiritual opportunities presented by conflict. This book offers invaluable insights into how far the Church influenced public appraisal of war whilst illuminating the changing role of the Church across the twentieth century.
Download or read book Christianity Versus Violence written by Stan Windass and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1979 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christianity is strongly pacifist. Mid-twentieth century Christianity has plenty of exponents who are satisfied that it is in accordance with Christian principles not only to wage war but to wage it by wiping out indiscriminately and at one blow millions of helpless civilians. The change of viewpoint is striking, to say the least. Yet as the author points out, mere ironic condemnation is here not a good enough response from the Christian; not nearly good enough. Many early Christians could give the problem of violence a magnificently over-simplified solution precisely because they were not really committed to the world; their archetypal relation to it was the simple head-on collision of martyrdom. It was only when the martyrdoms had begun to convert the world that Christians painfully realized that they could not contract out of running society, and that the problem of violence could not be tackled so simply.
