- Paperback: 348 pages
- Publisher: Orbis Books (Jun 15 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1570759227
- ISBN-13: 978-1570759222
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 17.5 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 612 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #792,281 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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a major addition to any Christian library, May 25 2011
By Jim Forest - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Christian Peace and Nonviolence: A Documentary History (Paperback)
Christian Peace and Nonviolence is a major addition to any Christian library or, for that matter, to the library of anyone with a serious interest in war and peace. Editor Michael Long has assembled a comprehensive survey of Christian voices for peace from the early days of the Church into the present day.The book's structure is historical, beginning with a selection of scriptures of peace from the Old and New Testaments. Authors from the early Church include Justin Martyr, Athenagorus, Tertullian, Origen, Cyprian, Arnobius, Lactantius, Basil the Great, Pelagicus, Paulinus of Nola, Benedict of Nursia and Francis of Assisi. There are also extracts from the biography of Martin of Tours and ancient accounts of the martyrdoms of Maximilian, Marcellus, and the brothers Boris and Gleb.
Erasmus of Rotterdam is included in a section of writings from the Reformation period. Among those represented in the 1600-1900 section that follows are George Fox, William Penn, John Woolman, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Jane Addams and Leo Tolstoy.
The book's twentieth-century authors include Martin Luther King, Thomas Merton, Pope John XXIII, Oscar Romero, Stanley Hauerwas, John Howard Yoder, Dorothy Day, A.J. Muste and André Trocmé. The anthology concludes with twelve entries written in the past eleven years.
While the collection has a distinctly western orientation (the only Orthodox authors in the post-Schism sections are Fr. John McGuckin and myself), it belongs in the library of any Christian, whether Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox. The documents demonstrate that a nonviolent way of life and struggle is not a footnote to Christian history but, in the words of Stanley Hauerwas, "lies at the heart of what it means to be a follower of Christ." He predicts this book "will become an essential teaching resource not only for thinking through nonviolence but also for understanding the very character of Christianity."
Note: In the summer of 2011, the Orthodox Research Institute will be publishing a book with an Eastern Christian tilt that will be a useful companion volume: For the Peace from Above: an Orthodox Resource Book on War, Peace and Nationalism.
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Christian and non Christian's will appreciate this book, May 20 2012
By kathleen gladden - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Christian Peace and Nonviolence: A Documentary History (Paperback)
Christians persecuted for their faith, and those still able to pray will appreciate this edited volume of articles that testify to the spiritual (and religious if you will) witnesses to the significance of non-violence for our world today.
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