Nonviolence :

Yoder, John Howard.

Nonviolence : a brief history : the Warsaw lectures / John Howard Yoder ; edited by Paul Martens, Matthew Porter, and Myles Werntz. - Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, 2010. - xiv, 150 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Foreword : memos from Yoder -- The heritage of nonviolent thought and action -- The American civil rights struggle - - The lessons of the nonviolent experience -- The fall and rise of the just war tradition -- The science of conflict -- From the wars of Joshua to Jewish pacifism -- Jesus and nonviolent liberation -- Early Christian cosmology and nonviolence -- Varieties of Catholic peace theology I : nonviolent spirituality -- Varieties of Catholic peace theology II : professors and pastors -- Varieties of Catholic peace theology III : Latin American models.

Collects eleven lectures on Christian pacifism given by John Howard Yoder in Warsaw, Poland, in 1983.


9781602582569 (cloth : alk. paper) 1602582564


Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Peace--Religious aspects--Christianity.

BT736.6 / .Y61 2010