The Dove, the Fig Leaf and the Sword
Why Christianity Changes Its Mind About War
Erschienen am 15. Mai 2014
192 Seiten
978-0-281-07225-5 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Why does the pacifist movement of the first few centuries so quickly become an organization that supports emperors and finds reasons for fighting? ? What leads the Church to formulate just war principles only to abandon them when in pursuit of heretics and infidels? ? What impact did two world wars have on Christian thinking? ? Why have the churches in more recent years and a more secular age apparently taken a more cautious approach to war? These are the sort of questions this absorbing book sets out to answer. It makes a unique and intriguing contribution to the literature published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War in August 2014.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
Produkt-Hinweis
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-0-281-07225-5 (9780281072255)
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Inhalt
- Intro
- About the author
- Title page
- Imprint
- Table of contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: cruel necessity
- Part 1 THE DOVE: Christianity's first thoughts: the renunciation of violence
- 1. The legacy of Greece and Rome
- 2 Embracing pacifism
- Part 2 THE FIG LEAF: Christianity's second thoughts: the reluctant acceptance of necessary violence
- 3 Accepting just war
- 4 Just war in the age of Christendom
- 5 Sidestepping and rejecting just war
- Part 3 THE SWORD: Christianity's third thoughts: embracing violence in a righteous cause
- 6 Wars of religion and the rise of the nation state
- 7 From the Enlightenment to the First World War
- 8 Christian responses to the First World War
- Part 4 RETURN OF THE DOVE?: Christianity's latest thoughts: rejecting violence again
- 9 Recovering just war
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
