Theology for a Nuclear Age
Author: Gordon D. Kaufman
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780719017933
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Author: Gordon D. Kaufman
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780719017933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sallie McFague
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781451418019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this award-winning text, theologian Sallie McFague challenges Christians' usual speech about God as a kind of monarch. She probes instead three other possible metaphors for God as mother, lover, and friend.
Author: Sallie McFague
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780334010395
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ira Chernus
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780791400845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the symbolic meanings of the Bomb, this book excavates the "depth dimension" of the nuclear age. Rather than adding to the many ethical commentaries asking whether or not there should be nuclear weapons, the authors ask why there are nuclear weapons and a continuing arms race. They also address the kinds of symbolic changes that must occur in order to reverse the build-up of nuclear weapons. The authors approach these questions from the perspective of academic research, not from particular faith commitments, asking the reader to envision different human responses to this technology, human stances that can be illuminated by the creative insight of religious studies.
Author: James W. Douglass
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2006-04-01
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 159752610X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe live in that final time which offers humans the clearest choice in history: the kingdom or the holocaust, Jim Douglass writes. Either end is a lightning east to west: the nuclear holocaust a lightning fire, the kingdom of Reality a lightning spirit. We will choose lightning east to west today as either nuclear fire or the kingdom of God, as either despair and annihilation or transformation through nonviolence. If we look to Jesus and Gandhi, and what they point to, we can hope to choose the lightning fire of nonviolence.
Author: Charles A. Beasley
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ira Chernus
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1991-02-12
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0791498913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book builds on Robert Jay Lifton's theory of psychic numbing, and takes madness as a guiding metaphor. It shows that public perceptions of the Bomb are a kaleidoscope of ever-changing ideas and images. Recent changes in public awareness only signal new symptoms of this public madness, symptoms unwittingly fostered by the antinuclear movement. Since the newest nuclear images follow the same psychological pattern as their predecessors, they are likely to lead us deeper into nuclear madness. Chernus offers new interpretations of four major theorists int the psychology of religion—Paul Tillich, R.D. Laing, Mircea Eliade, and James Hillman—to trace the roots of nuclear madness back to the onset of modernity, when the West gained technological mastery at the price of losing religious imagination and ontological security. The author develops an interpretation of Lifton's own thought as an ontological and religious psychology. Drawing on the work of Eliade and Hillman, he goes on to suggest that madness reflects a repressed desire to transform life by opening up the floodgates of imagination. A conscious cultivation of the play of imagination can lead the way through madness to sanity and peace. But, imagination can only respond to the nuclear threat if it is acted out in a new brand of peace activism that blends pragmatic politics with psychological and religious transformation.
Author: Arthur Laffin
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781627855402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristian discipleship depends not on what ideas we believe but rather on a fundamental question: In whom do we place our trust? In Mark's gospel, we find what this challenge entails when Jesus declares that the primary condition for discipleship is "to take up the cross and follow in my steps" (Mk 8:34). What does it mean to follow Jesus' way of the cross and to place our trust in God for our true security, instead of in nuclear weapons that can destroy all life on earth? How do we find hope and courage to stand for God's reign of love, justice, and nonviolence in a world threatened by nuclear weapons, environmental devastation, warfare, systemic inequality, and other perils? This new edition of The Risk of the Cross will inspire Christians seeking answers to these questions today, just as the first edition helped Christians a generation ago. At its core are five small-group sessions focusing on Jesus' call to discipleship in Mark's gospel-all linked to appendices containing information and inspiration to help faith communities embrace the way of gospel nonviolence and to take action to avert nuclear annihilation and create a disarmed world. Book jacket.