Plowshares

Author : Kristen Tobey
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271078281

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In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading security guards, these activists pounded on missile nose cones with hammers and then covered the cones in their own blood. This act of nonviolent resistance was their answer to calls for prophetic witness in the Old Testament: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not take up sword against nation; they shall never again know war.” Plowshares explores the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group’s use of performance to achieve its goals. It looks at the group’s acts of civil disobedience, such as that undertaken at the GE plant in 1980, and the Plowshares’ behavior at the legal trials that result from these protests. Interpreting the Bible as a mandate to enact God’s kingdom through political resistance, the Plowshares work toward “symbolic disarmament,” with the aim of eradicating nuclear weapons. Plowshares activists continue to carry out such “divine obediences” against facilities where equipment used in the production or deployment of nuclear weapons is manufactured or stored. Whether one agrees or disagrees with their actions, this volume helps us better understand their motivations, logic, identity, and ultimate goal.

Author : David Ekbladh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226820507

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Plowshares into Swords by David Ekbladh Pdf

An in-depth look at how the ideas formulated by the interwar League of Nations shaped American thinking on the modern global order. In Plowshares into Swords, David Ekbladh recaptures the power of knowledge and information developed between World War I and World War II by an international society of institutions and individuals committed to liberal international order and given focus by the League of Nations in Geneva. That information and analysis revolutionized critical debates in a world in crisis. In doing so, Ekbladh transforms conventional understandings of the United States’ postwar hegemony, showing that important elements of it were profoundly influenced by ideas that emerged from international exchanges. The League’s work was one part of a larger transnational movement that included the United States and which saw the emergence of concepts like national income, gross domestic product, and other attempts to define and improve the standards of living, as well as new approaches to old questions about the role of government. Forged as tools for peace these ideas were beaten into weapons as World War II threatened. Ekbladh recounts how, though the US had never been a member of the organization, vital parts of the League were rescued after the fall of France in 1940 and given asylum at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. However, this presence in the US is just one reason its already well-regarded economic analyses and example were readily mobilized by influential American and international figures for an Allied “war of ideas,” plans for a postwar world, and even blueprints for the new United Nations. How did this body of information become so valuable? As Ekbladh makes clear, the answer is that information and analysis themselves became crucial currencies in global affairs: to sustain a modern, liberal global order, a steady stream of information about economics, politics, and society was, and remains, indispensable.

Author : Arno J. Mayer
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789604085

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Plowshares into Swords by Arno J. Mayer Pdf

A critical history of Israel and the Arab–Israeli conflict Eminent historian Arno J. Mayer traces the thinkers, leaders, and shifting geopolitical contexts that shaped the founding and development of the Israeli state. He recovers for posterity internal critics such as the philosopher Martin Buber, who argued for peaceful coexistence with the Palestinian Arabs. “A sense of limits is the better part of valour,” Mayer insists. Plowshares into Swords explores Israel’s indefinite deferral of the “Arab Question,” the strategic thinking behind the building of settlements and border walls, and the endurance of Palestinian resistance.

Author : General Maxwell D. Taylor
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0306804077

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Swords And Plowshares by General Maxwell D. Taylor Pdf

General Maxwell D. Taylor was one of the great military heroes of recent American history. During World War II, Taylor fought in Sicily and Italy before parachuting into France as head of the 101st Airborne Division on Dday, 1944. Later he commanded the Division in the Arnhem drop in Holland and in the defense of Basting in the Bulge. After the war, Taylor served as superintendent of West Point, U.S. Commander in Berlin, Commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, and Army Chief of Staff under President Eisenhower. John F. Kennedy named him chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and sent him to Vietnam in 1961; he returned to that country as Ambassador in 1965, and served as a key advisor to President Johnson until 1969. In Swords and Plowshares, Taylor tells the firsthand story of a life of action, courage, strategy, and dedication. Offering candid and controversial views of such central figures as Dwight Eisenhower, John Dulles, the Kennedy's, and General Westmoreland, Taylor contrasts their varying views of the role of air power in modern warfare, and presents his own approach to the problems of winning wars and making peace. These memoirs ably illustrate why General Maxwell Taylor deserves to rank among Marshall, Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Patton as one of the great American military geniuses of our time.

Author : Brent Sandy
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830896806

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Plowshares & Pruning Hooks by Brent Sandy Pdf

What are we to make of Isaiah's image of Mount Zion as the highest of the mountains, or Zechariah's picture of the Mount of Olives split in two, or Daniel's "beast rising out of the sea" or Revelation's "great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns"? How can Peter claim that on the day of Pentecost the prophecy of Joel was being fulfilled, with signs in heaven and wonders on earth, the sun turned to darkness and the moon to blood? The language and imagery of biblical prophecy has been the source of puzzlement for many Christians and a point of dispute for some. How ironic that is! For the prophets and seers were the wordsmiths of their time. They took pains to speak God's word clearly and effectively to their contemporaries. How should we, as citizens of the twenty-first century, understand the imagery of this ancient biblical literature? Are there any clues in the texts themselves, any principles we can apply as we read these important but puzzling biblical texts? D. Brent Sandy carefully considers the language and imagery of prophecy and apocalyptic, how it is used, how it is fulfilled within Scripture, and how we should read it against the horizon of our future. Clearly and engagingly written, Plowshares and Pruning Hooks is the kind of book that gives its readers a new vantage point from which to view the landscape of prophetic and apocalyptic language and imagery.

Author : Roger Burggraeve,Marc Vervenne
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nonviolence
ISBN : 906831372X

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Swords Into Plowshares by Roger Burggraeve,Marc Vervenne Pdf

Roger Burggraeve is professor-in-ordinary at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he teaches moral theology and is chairperson of the Center for the Study of the Theology of Peace. Marc Vervenne lectures at the Catholic University of Leuven in the field of Old Testament studies and serves as Academic Secretary for the University's Faculty of Theology.

Author : Arthur J. Laffin,Anne Montgomery
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608990597

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Swords into Plowshares, Volume One by Arthur J. Laffin,Anne Montgomery Pdf

Why is nonviolent civil disobedience (divine disobedience) an imperative for bringing about disarmament? What is the connection between faith, nonviolence, and resistance? How does one prepare for nonviolent acts of resistance? How does one respond to the charges brought in court? How does one view and cope with the consequences of imprisonment? How have some people nonviolently responded to U.S. intervention in Iraq and Central America and in war-torn countries like Bosnia? What are the main tenets of U.S. nuclear and foreign policy in the post-Cold War era? What is the human cost of weapons production? What does it mean to live in a national security state? What are some of the challenges faced by people in the U.S. who are concerned about justice and peace? The primary goal of this revised edition of Swords into Plowshares is to provide some initial answers to these and related questions. Contributors to this edition include: Bob Aldridge, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Samuel H. Day Jr., Jim and Shelly Douglass, Elizabeth McAlister, Molly Rush, and a host of other activists.

Author : Carole Sargent
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814637227

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Transform Now Plowshares by Carole Sargent Pdf

In July 2012, a Holy Child sister and two Catholic Workers committed the largest breach in US nuclear security history. They entered an enriched uranium facility armed with candles, bread, Bibles, and roses, to pray and paint peace slogans. As Transform Now Plowshares, they hoped to put nuclear weapons—which target civilians in violation of the Geneva Conventions and UN treaties—on trial, making international news. This book shares their discernments of conscience and the civil resistance legacy of Plowshares with its background of Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker, while also engaging the work of the Berrigan brothers, the Catonsville nine, and the recent Kings Bay Plowshares seven. Learn their stories and see the principles of Catholic Social Teaching in action.

Author : Arthur J. Laffin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725226869

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Swords Into Plowshares, Volume Two by Arthur J. Laffin Pdf

On September 9, 1980, the Plowshares Eight entered a General Electric plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and enacted the biblical command to "beat swords into plowshares" by hammering on the nose cones of two nuclear warheads and pouring blood on documents. Since that time, other small groups and individuals have entered manufacturing plants and military bases throughout the U.S., as well as in Australia, Germany, England, Ireland, Sweden, and Holland, to disarm components of nuclear and conventional weapons systems. As of Spring 2003 there have been over 150 people who, using hammers and other symbols, have carried out over 75 plowshares and related disarmament actions. This book recounts each of the actions that have occurred over the last twenty-three years and includes information about the trials and sentences plowshares activists have received. Photos of some of the actions and participants are also included in this chronology as well as other resources for peace and justice.

Author : Roy S.K. Lee
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004150010

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Swords Into Plowshares by Roy S.K. Lee Pdf

Brings together contributions analyzing some pressing issues in the world, and suggests ways and methods to manage these problems. This book covers topics such as the decision-making in the UN Security Council; the position of the United States vis-a-vis the United Nations; human rights and economic and social development; and others.

Author : Sharon Erickson Nepstad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521717670

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Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement by Sharon Erickson Nepstad Pdf

Nepstad documents the trajectories of various Plowshares movement groups, revealing how activist decisions affect longevity.

Author : David Ekbladh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226820491

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Plowshares Into Swords by David Ekbladh Pdf

Introduction: Knowledge in Exile -- The League Is the Thing: International Society's Super-University -- Plowshares into Swords: Knowledge, Weaponized -- Internationalist Dunkirk: International Society in Exile -- The Rover Boys of Reconstruction: International Society in the American World -- Coda: Great Leaps Forward.

Author : Thomas James Klancee
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781642990164

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Swords, Plowshares, and the Great Deception by Thomas James Klancee Pdf

From JFK to 9/11 to our daily ration of fake news, we are bombarded with untruths on a constant basis. No other event rivals 9/11 in its complexity, depth, and breadth in such regard. An understanding thereof defines the perpetrators of the great deception and the extent to which they will go to achieve their aims. An understanding of 9/11 is a huge step toward reaching a point where the truth becomes intuitively obvious despite inundation with false narratives. We seek truth as instructed. "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32). This book is a step in that direction.

Author : E.C. Pasour, Jr.,Randall R. Rucker
Publisher : Independent Institute
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598131932

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Plowshares & Pork Barrels by E.C. Pasour, Jr.,Randall R. Rucker Pdf

Agricultural subsidies in grains, cotton, milk, sugar, tobacco, honey, wool, and peanuts are analyzed in this examination of U.S. farm policy. Looking at such programs as food stamps, crop insurance, subsidized credit, trade credit, trade subsidies and import restrictions, conservation, agricultural research, and taxation, this historical perspective argues that these subsidies ultimately redistribute wealth to powerful agricultural interests who use their political clout to advance their economic interests at the expense of the general public. This analysis of government farm programs will appeal to professors and students who study agriculture; people affected by government farm policies; public officials, and businesses affected by agricultural policy such as those in food service, retail, and distribution.

Author : Geoffrey Wheeler,India. Information Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : India
ISBN : UIUC:30112061225584

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