Sometimes you’ve just gotta get away with the pixies to see the real deal of the world. There is no doubt that religious sensibility has been in steep decline for decades now in the West. The much studied sociologist Max Weber had effectively predicated this in 1917, with his oft quoted and deeply insightful observation. […]
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John Howard Yoder is amongst the prominent Christian scholars, who have argued that the ethics of Christian pacifism finds its foundation in the Hebrew bible. Himself, a pacifist from the Mennonite tradition, he was arguably America’s most influential pacifist theologian of the twentieth century. Michael Cartwright and Peter Ochs are among a growing number of
It is entirely appropriate that the Christians who adopt an active pacifist life, model their commitment on the life of the God with skin on man from Galilee, Jesus. He is for Christians the quintessential pacifist par excellence. Difficulty arises, however, when one enters the vast and varied terrain of Hebrew scripture. It is there
Amongst the points I have stressed in my previous posts about pacifism, Blessed are the peacemakers, and Christian pacifists; is the inescapable conclusion, that if adopted as a way of being in the world, pacifism requires extreme self-sacrifice. The metaphor of walking toward the cross is entirely applicable here. And none more so than the
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