It Is Not Lawful For Me To Fight

Author : Jean-Michel Hornus
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606089347

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It Is Not Lawful for Me to Fight by Jean-Michel Hornus Pdf

It is not lawful for me to fight. With these words Saint Martin of Tours left the Roman army in AD 356. In so doing, he-who ironically in later centuries was named patron saint of numerous garrison chapels-was acting in accordance with the teaching and discipline of the pre-Constantinian church. The Early Church, as Dr. Hornus demonstrates in this historical and theological study, consistently maintained the stance of enemy loving and nonviolence. It forbade believers to take life, and was deeply suspicious of the military profession. Only in the course of the fourth century, in the context of general ethical decline and cultural accommodation, did anti-militarism cease to be the church's official position. Dr. Hornus concludes his study by reflecting upon the relevance of the thought and action of the early Christians for our own violent age.

Author : Jim Forest
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Icons
ISBN : 9781608330775

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Praying with Icons by Jim Forest Pdf

Author : Dustin Ells Howes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199337002

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Freedom Without Violence by Dustin Ells Howes Pdf

There is a long tradition in Western political thought suggesting that violence is necessary to defend freedom. But nonviolence and civil disobedience have played an equally long and critical role in establishing democratic institutions. Freedom Without Violence explores the long history of political practice and thought that connects freedom to violence in the West, from Athenian democracy and the Roman republic to the Age of Revolutions and the rise of totalitarianism. It is the first comprehensive examination of the idea that violence is necessary to obtain, defend, and exercise freedom. The book also brings to the fore the opposing theme of nonviolent freedom, which can be found both within the Western tradition and among critics of that tradition. Since the plebs first vacated Rome to refuse military service and win concessions from the patricians in 494 B.C., nonviolence and civil disobedience have played a critical role in republics and democracies. Abolitionists, feminists and anti-colonial activists all adopted and innovated the methods of nonviolence. With the advent of the Velvet Revolutions, the end of apartheid in South Africa and, most recently, the Arab Spring, nonviolence has garnered renewed interest in both scholarly publications and the popular imagination. In this book, Dustin Ells Howes traces the intellectual history of freedom as it relates to the concepts and practices of violence and nonviolence. Through a critique and reappraisal of the Western political tradition, Freedom Without Violence constructs a conception of nonviolent freedom. The book argues that cultivating and practicing this brand of freedom is the sine qua non of a vibrant democracy that resists authoritarianism, imperialism and oligarchy.

Author : Jean Michel Hornus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783790546

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It Is Not Lawful for Me to Fight by Jean Michel Hornus Pdf

Author : Werner Simanekeni Afunde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Chaplains, Military
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132793352

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Chaplaincy by Werner Simanekeni Afunde Pdf

Author : George Stringer Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Fiji
ISBN : PSU:000057669946

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James Calvert of Fiji by George Stringer Rowe Pdf

Author : Nancy Werlin
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781536218299

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Zoe Rosenthal Is Not Lawful Good by Nancy Werlin Pdf

A buttoned-up overachiever works overtime to keep her inner nerd at bay—failing spectacularly—in Nancy Werlin’s hilarious and heartfelt return to contemporary realistic fiction. Planning is Zoe Rosenthal’s superpower. She has faith in a properly organized to-do list and avoids unnecessary risks. Her mental checklist goes something like this: 1) Meet soulmate: DONE! 2) Make commitment: DONE! 3) Marriage: TO COME! (after college). She isn’t sure which college yet, but it will have a strong political science department, since her perfect boyfriend, Simon, plans to “save the country,” as his sister puts it, “and the planet and everything.” Zoe will follow along, the perfect serious, supportive girlfriend. It’s good to have her love life resolved, checked off, done. But speaking of unnecessary risks, Zoe’s on a plane to Atlanta, sneaking off to Dragon Con for the second season premiere of Bleeders. The show is subject to her boyfriend’s lofty scorn, but Zoe is nothing like these colorful hordes “wearing their inside on their outside.” Once her flirtation with fandom is over, she will get back to the important business of planning a future with Simon. The trouble is, right now, Bleeders—and her fellow “Bloodygits”—may just mean the world to her. Will a single night of nerdery be enough? Best-selling and award-winning author Nancy Werlin is best known for science fiction, fantasy, and suspense, but here she turns her pen to realistic fiction with broad appeal. Confirmed nerds will revel in a diverse cast, zany fandoms, and cosplaying crowds, but this is for any reader seeking a smart, breezy coming-of-age story about finding your friends—and your inconvenient self.

Author : Thomas ELLWOOD (of the Society of Friends.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1720
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023908159

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The foundation of Tythes shaken, and the four principal posts (of Divine institution, primitive practice, voluntary donations, & positive laws), on which the nameless Author T. Comber of the Book, called "The Right of Tythes Asserted" ... hath set his pretended right to Tythes, removed, in a reply to the said book by Thomas ELLWOOD (of the Society of Friends.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Christianity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007343333

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The Second Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : John D. Roth
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621897545

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Constantine Revisited by John D. Roth Pdf

This collection of essays continues a long and venerable debate in the history of the Christian church regarding the legacy of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. For some, Constantine's conversion to Christianity early in the fourth century set in motion a process that made the church subservient to the civil authority of the state, brought a definitive end to pacifism as a central teaching of the early church, and redefined the character of Christian catechesis and missions. In 2010, Peter J. Leithart published a widely read polemic, Defending Constantine, that vigorously refuted this interpretation. In its place, Leithart offered a thoroughgoing rehabilitation of Constantine and his legacy, while directing a rhetorical fusillade against the pacifist theology and ethics of the Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder. The essays gathered here in response to Leithart reflect the insights of eleven leading theologians, historians, and ethicists from a wide range of theological traditions. They engage one of the most contentious issues in Christian church history in irenic fashion and at the highest level of scholarship. In so doing, they help ensure that the "Constantinian Debate" will continue to be lively, substantive, and consequential.

Author : Jean-Michel Hornus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1418953002

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It is not Lawful for me to fight: early christian attitudes towards war, violence, and the state by Jean-Michel Hornus Pdf

Author : George Cockburn Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UCAL:B4517400

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Fiji and the Fijians, 1835-1856 by George Cockburn Henderson Pdf

Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern)
ISBN : 0802058191

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Colloquies by Desiderius Erasmus Pdf

Erasmus' Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris about 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin. Twenty years later the material was published by Johann Froben (Basel 1518). It was an immediate success and was reprinted thirty times in the next four years. For the edition of March 1522 Erasmus began to add fully developed dialogues, and a book designed to improve boys' use of Latin (and their deportment) soon became a work of literature for adults, although it retained traces of its original purposes. The final Froben edition (March, 1533) had about sixty parts, most of them dialogues. It was in the last form that the Colloquies were read and enjoyed for four centuries. For modern readers it is one of the best introductions to European society of the Renaissance and Reformation periods, with lively descriptions of daily life and provocative discussions of political, religious, social, and literary topics, presented with Erasmus's characteristic wit and verve. Each colloquy has its own introduction and full explanatory, historical, and biographical notes. Volumes 39 and 40 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series - Two-volume set.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : WISC:89073048803

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The Friend by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ronald J. Sider
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441238689

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The Early Church on Killing by Ronald J. Sider Pdf

What did the early church believe about killing? What was its view on abortion? How did it approach capital punishment and war? Noted theologian and bestselling author Ron Sider lets the testimony of the early church speak in the first of a three-volume series on biblical peacemaking. This book provides in English translation all extant data directly relevant to the witness of the early church until Constantine on killing. Primarily, it draws data from early church writings, but other evidence, such as archaeological finds and Roman writings, is included. Sider taps into current evangelical interest in how the early church informs contemporary life while presenting a thorough, comprehensive treatment on topics of perennial concern. The book includes brief introductions to every Christian writer cited and explanatory notes on many specific texts.