Christian Peace Theology and Nonviolence toward the Truth: Internal Critique amid Interfaith Dialogue
This article surveys theological debates over war and violence within the Christian tradition in a way that assumes othersparticularly Muslimsare listening in. It presents Christian pacifism as the sort of internal critique that representatives of any faith tradition must honestly do in order to d...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2018
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Journal of ecumenical studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 53, Issue: 4, Pages: 541-568 |
RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations NCD Political ethics |
Further subjects: | B
Muslims
B Epistemology B Methodology B Violence B War B Ecumenical Dialogue B nonviolence toward the truth B Mahatma Gandhi B Pacifism B active nonviolence B Christian pacifism B Muslim-Christian dialogue B Church History B Interreligious Dialogue B Interfaith Dialogue |
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Summary: | This article surveys theological debates over war and violence within the Christian tradition in a way that assumes othersparticularly Muslimsare listening in. It presents Christian pacifism as the sort of internal critique that representatives of any faith tradition must honestly do in order to dialogue well with others in the service of peace. Practitioners of interfaith dialogue might thus recognize in this case study one of the first principles of their very discipline, namely, that nonviolence toward the truth is a commitment so basic to ecumenical and interfaith conversation that it may not be a goal at all but, rather, the beginning we must already have made in order to dialogue at all. |
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ISSN: | 2162-3937 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of ecumenical studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/ecu.2018.0039 |