Christianity and violence / Lloyd Steffen.

How Christian people have framed the meaning of violence within their faith tradition has been a complex process subject to all manner of historical, cultural, political, ethnic and theological contingencies. As a tradition encompassing widely divergent beliefs and perspectives, Christianity has, ov...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Steffen, Lloyd H., 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Elements in religion and violence.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Christianity and Violence -- Contents -- 1 Religion and Violence: Introduction, Clarifications and Limitations -- 2 Theological Sources and Sanctions for Violence and Nonviolence -- St. Paul -- Jesus/Christ -- Looking Ahead -- 3 Insecurity and Vulnerability -- Background -- Background to the Black Death -- Yersinia pestis -- Anti-Semitism Unleashed -- The Flagellants -- Violence Turned Inward -- Insecurity -- 4 The Violence/Nonviolence Dialectic -- Christian Holy War -- Just War -- Pacifism -- Nonresistance to Evil -- Leo Tolstoy 
505 8 |a Nonviolent Resistance -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Reinhold Niebuhr on Pacifism -- Concluding Remarks on Christians and War -- 5 Identity -- Punishment, Social Control and Identity -- Punishment and the Execution Power -- Incarceration -- Inquisition -- The Preservation of Identity: Slavery/Race/Terror -- White Supremacy -- Christian Terrorists -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography 
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