The Lion's Pride: America and the Peaceable Community [Paperback]

Leonard I. Sweet (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Abingdon Pr (December 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0687218578
• ISBN-13: 978-0687218578
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,731,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Len Sweet was born of a mixed marriage: his mother was a fiery Pilgrim Holiness-ordained preacher from the mountains of West Virginia and his quiet father a Free Methodist lay leader from the Adirondack mountains of upstate New York. After a deconversion at 17, when Len set about less sowing wild oats than planting prairies, he became an atheist intellectual and scholar dedicated to exposing the nincompoopery and poppycockery, if not tomfoolery and skullduggery of all religions. After this seven-year period of liminality, Len came back to the faith of his ancestors, where he has been ever since, exploring the "insterstices" and "semiotics" of religion, culture and history. He uses two words to describe himself: semiotician and interstitial. In other words, he is obsessed with two questions: "Where have you been?" and "Where are you going?"

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5.0 out of 5 stars from the back cover of the book:, July 28, 2007

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This review is from: The Lion's Pride: America and the Peaceable Community (Paperback)

America is at a critical moment in its history. Behind us lies Vietnam, Hiroshima, a legacy of war. Clearly, in this nuclear age, our future -- our very survival -- depends on our ability to break our "war habit."
But obstacles stand in the way. One of them, incredibly, is religion.
In THE LIONS' PRIDE Leonard Sweet focuses on the sometimes all-too-cozy relationship in America between religion and war. Sweet takes a close look at America's "with God on our side" militarism, examining its historical origins and consequences. Employing both historical and biblical perspectives, THE LION'S PRIDE offers fresh, powerful insights into:
* America's dominant war mentality
* How our war language affects our war thinking
* How Christian peacemaking can be realistically "put to work" in a frighteningly sinful and complex world.
An indispensable resource for every Christian who desires a workable vision of peace in this nuclear age.