a companion to Bainton Yoder, John Howard. creator text bibliography miu Benham Co-Op Bookstore c1983 1983 monographic eng

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602 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 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. John Howard Yoder ; : Includes bibliographical references (p. 458-460) and indexes. 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 DLC 170427 20250312110514.0 15512627