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The Sleep of Behemoth
InThe Sleep of Behemoth, Jehangir Yezdi Malegam explores the emergence of conflicting concepts of peace in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Ever since the Early Church, Christian thinkers had conceived of their peace separate from the peace of the world, guarded by the sacraments and shared only grudgingly with powers and principalities. To kingdoms and communities they had allowed attenuated versions of this peace, modes of accommodation and domination that had tranquility as the goal. After 1000, reformers in the papal curia and monks and canons in the intellectual circles of northern France began to reimagine the Church as an engine of true peace, whose task it was eventually to absorb all peoples through progressive acts of revolutionary peacemaking. Peace as they envisioned it became a mandate for reform through conflict, coercion, and insurrection. And the pursuit of mere tranquility appeared dangerous, and even diabolical. As Malegam shows, within western Christendom's major centers of intellectual activity and political thought, the clergy competed over the meaning and monopolization of the term \"peace.\" contrasting it with what one canon lawyer called the \"sleep of Behemoth,\" a diabolical \"false\" peace of lassitude and complacency, one that produced unsuitable forms of community and friendship that must be overturned at all costs. Out of this contest over the meaning and ownership of true peace, Malegam concludes, medieval thinkers developed theologies that shaped secular political theory in the later Middle Ages.The Sleep of Behemothtraces this radical experiment in redefining the meaning of peace from the papal courts of Rome and the schools of Laon, Liege, and Paris to its gradual spread across the continent and its impact on such developments as the rise of papal monarchism; the growth of urban, communal self-government; and the emergence of secular and mystical scholasticism.
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Religion and peacebuilding
In the wake of September 11, 2001 religion is often seen as the motivating force behind terrorism and other acts of violence. Religion and Peacebuilding looks beyond headlines concerning violence perpetrated in the name of religion to examine how world religions have also inspired social welfare and peacemaking activism. Leading scholars from the Aboriginal, Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian traditions provide detailed analyses of the spiritual resources for fostering peace within their respective religions. The contributors discuss the formidable obstacles to nonviolent conflict transformation found within sacred texts and living traditions. Case studies of Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Cambodia, and South Africa are also examined as practical applications of spiritual resources for peace.
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Can Christian Make a Difference? A Critical Practical Theology of Peacebuilding in Burma
This work is about Christian peacebuilding in Burma in relation to the ongoing militarization in that country. It proposes a public practical theology of peacebuilding for Burma. Militarization has victimized many people there. Burma needs peace. Christians can contribute to the peacebuilding work in Burma. This work explores how Christians make a difference in this process.Using practice-theory-practice method, this work navigates through a thick description of the past and present situation of conflict in Burma, and then addresses the reasons that kept Christians from becoming actively involved in this situation. Through a theology of peace and peacebuilding, it offers biblical foundations for Christian social commitment. After a critical assessment of peacebuilding practices by Christians in Burma, this work proposes a comprehensive approach to peacebuilding. This process of peacebuilding seeks to move Burma beyond the ceasefire phase into a permanent peace through right relationship among all the people of this country.
Dissertation
Sharing Peace: Class, Hierarchy, and Christian Social Order
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Class, Power, and Inequality
Class and Political Economy
Worship as a Mode of Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Class, Corporatism, and Covenant
Classlessness and the Peace of the Earthly City
References
Book Chapter
Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust
This chapter contains sections titled:
The Church: Called to be an Icon of the Trinity
Eucharist: Learning and Living the Practices of Peace
The Communal Life of Charity: Living in the Peace of Christ
References
Book Chapter
3 U.S. PEACE ACTIVISTS STILL IN JAIL
JERUSALEM (AP) - Three American peace activists, including an Ohioan, were kept in jail Sunday after they refused to sign a promise to stay out of the West Bank city of Hebron for two months. The three Americans were detained Saturday by the army after they violated army closure orders and forced open a sealed gate to the Islamic College in Hebron.
Newspaper Article
Breaking Bread: Peace and War
This chapter contains sections titled:
War as Liturgy
War as Sacrifice
The Non‐Liturgical Portrayal of War
War and the Broken Body
Conclusion
References
Book Chapter
Kingdom to Commune
American religious pacifism is usually explained in terms of its practitioners' ethical and philosophical commitments. Patricia Appelbaum argues that Protestant pacifism, which constituted the religious center of the large-scale peace movement in the United States after World War I, is best understood as a culture that developed dynamically in the broader context of American religious, historical, and social currents.Exploring piety, practice, and material religion, Appelbaum describes a surprisingly complex culture of Protestant pacifism expressed through social networks, iconography, vernacular theology, individual spiritual practice, storytelling, identity rituals, and cooperative living. Between World War I and the Vietnam War, she contends, a paradigm shift took place in the Protestant pacifist movement. Pacifism moved from a mainstream position to a sectarian and marginal one, from an embrace of modernity to skepticism about it, and from a Christian center to a purely pacifist one, with an informal, flexible theology.The book begins and ends with biographical profiles of two very different pacifists, Harold Gray and Marjorie Swann. Their stories distill the changing religious culture of American pacifism revealed inKingdom to Commune.
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Religious Persecution Behind the Iron Curtain. Congressional Hearing, 1985-11-14
Government Document