Glen Stassen believes Christians should direct their energies toward finding a set of criteria and a model for a "just peace" instead of "just war." He bases his just peace theory on the new reality of our world, on recent biblical interpretation, and on the experiences of people who lived in the face of oppression and nuclear threat, and who--together with political scientists, Christian ethicists, and activists--fashioned realistic steps toward peacemaking.
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Glen H. Stassen is Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
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This should be on the coffee table, magazine rack, bookshelf, and waiting room of every serious national leader. Conscientious voters should also read this in order to understand what it takes to make political peace in the world. But Stassen is not merely political, he's actually biblical first of all. He exegetes like a biblical scholar while making applications which only a leading Christian ethicist like he could. Just peacemaking shows that "just war theory" can lead to peace while restraining war, and that passifism is an extremely ACTIVE practice. EXCELLENT!
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Peacemaking with purpose and effectiveness,
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I originally encountered this book while writing a paper for a Seminary class. It served as my first contact with Glen Stassen's work, and it changed my views on peacemaking forever. This book will lead you to positive actions for peacemaking, a wonderful alternative to the more passive approaches to peace that are often proposed in our world. Every library should have a copy, along with other offerings by Glen Stassen. Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!
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Great practicle application of the Sermon of the Mount.,
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Stasson does an incredible job in his ability to interpret and apply the teaching of Jesus to every day life. While often the sermon on the mount is ignored in Christian teaching and literature because so many people find it hard to understand or live up to, Stasson shows how Jesus teachings don't trap people, but rather set them free to break away from the patterns of sin and pain.
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peacemaking theory, transforming initiatives, peacemaking groups, peacemaking initiatives, peacemaker groups, insider interviews, human rights ethic, valid interests, nuclear buildup, war theory, zero solution, independent initiatives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, East Germany, United Nations, President Bush, New Testament, Challenge of Peace, Middle East, Old Testament, Saddam Hussein, Eastern Europe, Cold War, President Reagan, World War, Star Wars, Defense of Creation, Head Start, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King, Richard Overton, West German, Secretary Baker, Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, Reinhold Niebuhr, Christian Wolf New!
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At 2:00 A.M. Friday, November 10, 1989, Siegfried Rosemann answered the telephone. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
peacemaking theory, transforming initiatives, peacemaking groups, peacemaking initiatives, peacemaker groups, insider interviews, human rights ethic, valid interests, nuclear buildup, war theory, zero solution, independent initiatives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, East Germany, United Nations, President Bush, New Testament, Challenge of Peace, Middle East, Old Testament, Saddam Hussein, Eastern Europe, Cold War, President Reagan, World War, Star Wars, Defense of Creation, Head Start, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King, Richard Overton, West German, Secretary Baker, Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, Reinhold Niebuhr, Christian Wolf New!
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- The Sermon on the Mount by W. D. Davies on 12 pages
- The Sermon on the Mount: Inspiring the Moral Imagination (Companions to the New Testament) by Dale C. Allison on 8 pages
- Sermon on the Mount by Joachim Jeremias on 4 pages
- Setting of Sermon on Mount by Davies on 4 pages
- Deadly Gambits by Strobe Talbott on 4 pages
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- Covenant of Peace: The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics by Willard M. Swartley in Front Matter, page 65, and Back Matter
- Transforming the Powers: Peace, Justice, and the Domination System by Ray C. Gingerich in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Faith of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture by Christopher H. Evans in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Living the Sermon on the Mount: A Practical Hope for Grace and Deliverance (Enduring Questions in Christian Life) by Glen H Stassen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Culture Of Peace by Alan Kreider in Back Matter
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