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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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
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2021.
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| Series: | Elements in religion and violence.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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