Christian attitudes to war, peace, and revolution / [manuscript] / a companion to Bainton.
Yoder, John Howard.
Christian attitudes to war, peace, and revolution / a companion to Bainton. [manuscript] / John Howard Yoder ; : - Benham. : Co-Op Bookstore, c1983. - 602 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 458-460) and indexes.
Introduction -- Refining our typology on the ethics of war -- The pacifism of pre-Constantinian Christianity -- The meaning of the Constantinian shift -- The logic of the just war tradition -- Criteria of the just war tradition -- Interpreting the just war criteria -- The career of the just war theory -- The peace dimension of medieval moral concern -- The nonviolence of rabbinic Judaism -- The pacifism of the first Reformation -- Anabaptists in the continental Reformation -- The peace vision of Enlightenment humanism -- Quakerism in the Puritan Reformation -- Quakerism in early America: the holy experiment -- Pacifism in the nineteenth century -- Liberal Protestant pacifism -- Reinhold Niebuhr's "realist" critique -- Mennonites after Niebuhr -- Biblical realism and the politics of Jesus -- Other biblical themes -- Just war thinking revived -- The lessons of nonviolent experience -- Ecumenical theologies of revolution and liberation -- Varieties of contemporary Catholic peace concern -- Ecumenical conversations.
War--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.
Peace--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.
Revolutions--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.
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Christian attitudes to war, peace, and revolution / a companion to Bainton. [manuscript] / John Howard Yoder ; : - Benham. : Co-Op Bookstore, c1983. - 602 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 458-460) and indexes.
Introduction -- Refining our typology on the ethics of war -- The pacifism of pre-Constantinian Christianity -- The meaning of the Constantinian shift -- The logic of the just war tradition -- Criteria of the just war tradition -- Interpreting the just war criteria -- The career of the just war theory -- The peace dimension of medieval moral concern -- The nonviolence of rabbinic Judaism -- The pacifism of the first Reformation -- Anabaptists in the continental Reformation -- The peace vision of Enlightenment humanism -- Quakerism in the Puritan Reformation -- Quakerism in early America: the holy experiment -- Pacifism in the nineteenth century -- Liberal Protestant pacifism -- Reinhold Niebuhr's "realist" critique -- Mennonites after Niebuhr -- Biblical realism and the politics of Jesus -- Other biblical themes -- Just war thinking revived -- The lessons of nonviolent experience -- Ecumenical theologies of revolution and liberation -- Varieties of contemporary Catholic peace concern -- Ecumenical conversations.
War--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.
Peace--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.
Revolutions--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.
BT736.2 / .Y58 2009
261.8/73