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Confronting Religious Violence
Christian Humanism and the Moral ImaginationConfronting Fundamentalism, Band 2
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17,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Wipf And Stock Publishers |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 28.03.2016 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781498228824 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 122 |
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Confronting Religious Violence: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination tells the tale of Christian theocracy in the West. Who converted whom was never entirely clear: the empire did stop feeding people to the lions for public entertainment; but Christianity was theologically corrupted by its official role in legitimating empire-as-usual. That theological corruption led to crusades, inquisitions, torture, and so forth. And it leaves us with a major question: is God violent? More dangerously yet: is violence our only option in response to wrongdoing? Are we morally obligated to injure those who have injured others, to kill those who have killed others? If theocracy is a terrible idea, what is the proper relationship between church and state? We can't say that the state is never morally accountable at all. Furthermore: despite constitutional separation of church and state, hard-right Christian fundamentalism continues to play a culturally significant role in advocating military action abroad and supporting state violence at home. There is a lot at stake in reclaiming the systematic nonviolence and moral imagination of Jesus of Nazareth.
Catherine Miles Wallace, PhD, is a cultural historian on the faculty of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She is the author of
<i>For Fidelity: How Intimacy and Commitment Enrich Our Lives</i> (1998).
<i>For Fidelity: How Intimacy and Commitment Enrich Our Lives</i> (1998).
"Proclaiming Christianity that can cooperate with other religions and is understood as living the way of Jesus rather than as adherence to a theory about Jesus provides a welcome antidote to the violent God emulated by adherents of the contemporary form of Christendom, which Wallace repudiates so forcefully."
<br> --J. Denny Weaver, author of
<i>The Nonviolent God</i>
<br> --J. Denny Weaver, author of
<i>The Nonviolent God</i>
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