War, Peace and Reconciliation : A Theological Enquiry

Weber, Theodore R.

Lutterworth Press（2016/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 184 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780718894375
• DDC分類 261.873

Full Description

War, Peace, and Reconciliation invites Christians and their churches into a dialogue regarding how to think about war from a standpoint rooted in faith. It asks how reconciliation, which is central to Christian life and doctrine, can engage with the realities of war without surrendering its fundamental affirmations. Theodore Weber defines these realities politically by discussing the meanings of power, peace as a particular organisation of power, and the international system. The study of war and politics is unavoidable, as is engagement with reconciliation, because all human activity exists in the context of the gracious work of God to renew and reconcile the fallen creation. Weber's inquiry is theocentric and christocentric. It culminates in a stirring call to churches to examine all their practices in the light of this perspective.

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. The Problem: How to Think as Christians about War and Peace
2. War and Reconciliation: Logics and Contexts

PART ONE: The Theological Context
3. The History of Divine Grace: The Context of Reconciliation
4. Fundamental Reality and Its Disruptions
5. Judgment, Preservation, and Historical Preservation

PART TWO: The Political Context
6. War in the Context of Politics
7. The Meanings and Problems of Power
8. The Civilizing of Power
9. The International System, and Other Matters

PART THREE: Peace, Justice, the Church
10. Peace: The Freedom to Be Vulnerable
11. Justice, Power, and Peace
12. Rethinking the "Just War Ethic"
13. Reconciliation, War, and the Church

Concluding Reflections
Bibliography
Index