| Description |
1 online resource (326 pages) |
| Contents |
Bodies of Peace; Bodies of Peace; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ecclesiology, Nonviolence, and the Claims of War; War, Church, and the Plurality of Witness; The Church as Nonviolent: John Howard Yoder, Dialogical Nonviolence, and the Church's Performance; The Church Forming Nonviolence: Dorothy Day, The Mystical Body, and the Logic of Tradition; The Church as Naming Nonviolence: William Stringfellow, The Powers, and the Word's Renewing Work; The Church Supporting Nonviolence: Robert McAfee Brown, CALCAV, and Worldly Ecumenicity; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Bodies of Peace argues that Christian nonviolence is both formed by and forms ecclesial life, creating an inextricable relationship between church commitment and resistance to war. In this volume, Myles Werntz examines the work of John Howard Yoder, Dorothy Day, William Stringfellow, and Robert McAfee Brown, demonstrating how each thinker's advocacy for nonviolent resistance depends deeply upon the ecclesiology out of which it comes. The volume argues that any account of an ecclesially-informed resistance to war must be open to a multitude of approaches, not as pragmatic concessions, but as a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 10, 2014) |
| Subject |
Theology -- History.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- History.
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Theology.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ingram, Laurie, cover designer
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| ISBN |
9781451489460 |
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1451489463 |
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1451480423 |
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9781451480429 |
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