Christianity and violence

by Steffen, Lloyd H.

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Full title :Christianity and violence / Lloyd Steffen.

Summary

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, over two millennia, adapted to changing cultural and historical circumstances. To grasp the complexity of this tradition and its involvement with violence requires attention to specific elements explored in this Element: the scriptural and institutional sources for violence; the faith commitments and practices that join communities and sanction both resistance to and authorization for violence; and select historical developments that altered the power wielded by Christianity in society, culture and politics. Relevant issues in social psychology and the moral action guides addressing violence affirmed in Christian communities provide a deeper explanation for the motivations that have led to the diverse interpretations of violence avowed in the Christian tradition.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781108859271, 1108859275
oclc:on1249552575
LC Classification:BT736.15
Dewey Decimal:241.697

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