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Author: Rowan Williams
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2005-04-11
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780802827906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this powerful meditation, Williams probes words such as "reconciliation" to reveal the profound realism of the concepts of peace and violence as understood in the Bible and in latter Christian tradition.
Author: Thomas Head
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1501725564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the dissolution of the former Carolingian Empire, warfare and plunder went unchecked. An innovative response to this violence was the Church-led initiative known as the Peace of God, perhaps history's earliest mass peace movement. In the thirteen essays collected here, leading scholars consider key aspects of the movement and episodes in its history.
Author: James Turner Johnson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017-03-14
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1400886740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Turner Johnson goes beyond the examination of moral restraints on the occasion and conduct of war to a critical study of the moral thinking that has aimed at its prevention. This scrutiny of the peace issue" in Western society covers nearly two thousand years of history and three traditions of the search for peace: the just war tradition of setting limits to war, the sectarian pacifism of withdrawal from the world and its evils, and the Utopian world-perfecting pacifism that finds the cure for discord among nations in the establishment of a new, more nearly universal, and rightly constituted political order. Revealing the historical depth of all three traditions, the book shows that contemporary "nuclear pacifism" derives from forms of thought that are centuries old. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Dominique Barthélemy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780801475603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDominique Barthélemy presents a sharply revisionist account of the history of France around the year 1000, challenging the traditional view that France underwent a kind of revolution at the millennium which ushered in feudalism.
Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Published: 2005-12-01
Total Pages: 101
ISBN-13: 1596056916
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"If I should lie in a manger all night," she said, standing with her feet well apart and looking up at him, "would I become a boy?" The Bishop tugged at his beard. "A boy, little maid! Would you give up your blue eyes and your soft skin to be a roystering lad?" "My father wishes for a son," she had replied and the cloud that was over the Castle shadowed the Bishop's eyes. "It would not be well," he replied, "to tamper with the works of the Almighty. Pray rather for this miracle, that your father's heart be turned toward you and toward the lady, your mother." -from The Truce of God Mary Roberts Rinehart's popular fiction-about nurses who solve crimes and adventurous spinsters-made her one of the most popular novelists and short-story writers of the early 20th century, a feminist, comic Raymond Chandler. The Truce of God, written during the era of her more serious writing, is a medieval Christmas fairy tale about Lord Charles the Fair and his young daughter, Clotilde, who longs for something more than her gender is typically allowed in these dark times. Grimly charming, The Truce of God-here in a replica of the beautiful 1920 edition-is an excellent example of the engaging storytelling that first captivated Rinehart's readers. American author MARY ROBERTS RINEHART (1876-1958) wrote some of the earliest classics of pulp fiction, including The Man in Lower Ten (1906) and The Circular Staircase (1907). Among her many novels of comedy, mystery, and romance are The Case of Jennie Brice (1914), The Red Lamp (1925), and The Swimming Pool (1952).
Author: Geoffrey Koziol
Publisher: Past Imperfect
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781942401377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeoffrey Koziol argues for the validity of a range of contradictory interpretations of the Medieval Peace of God movement.
Author: Peter J. Leithart
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2010-09-24
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0830827226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Leithart weighs what we've been taught about Constantine and claims that in focusing on these historical mirages we have failed to notice the true significance of Constantine and Rome baptized. He reveals how beneath the surface of this contested story there lies a deeper narrative--a tectonic shift in the political theology of an empire--with far-reaching implications.
Author: Tomaz Mastnak
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-02-19
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780520925991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTomaz Mastnak's provocative analysis of the roots of peacemaking in the Western world elucidates struggles for peace that took place in the high and late Middle Ages. Mastnak traces the ways that eleventh-century peace movements, seeking to end violence among Christians, shaped not only power structures within Christendom but also the relationship of the Western Christian world to the world outside. The unification of Christian society under the banner of "holy peace" precipitated a fundamental division between the Christian and non-Christian worlds, and the postulated peace among Christians led to holy war against non-Christians.
Author: Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 588
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Author: John Macquarrie
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic study of peace, first published in the 1970s, has lost none of its power over the years and is reissued for the first time as a paperback after being long unavailable. The author has written a new preface, reflecting on developments since the book was written. Beginning with a survey of the many areas in which human life is fractured - international relations, race relations, the relationship between human beings and nature, and the family - John Macquarrie shows that peace requires a two-fold knowledge, technical and eschatological, i.e. with a particular goal in mind. He goes on to relate the biblical idea of shalom to the problems of contemporary society, asking whether peace or conflict is the basic human state. This leads on into discussions of conflict and violence, and how they can be dealt with in our dangerous modern world.
