The Christian and the Sword
Author : Peter Walpot
Publisher : The Plough Publishing House
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Hutterian Brethren
ISBN : 0874868785
Author : Peter Walpot
Publisher : The Plough Publishing House
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Hutterian Brethren
ISBN : 0874868785
Author : H. McKennie Goodpasture
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 2000-08-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579104460
From conquistadores and explorers to Protestants, peasants and priests, eyewitnesses give narrative to the triumphs and tragedies of Latin America's religious development.
Author : Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
In Bible and Sword Barbara Tuchman provides a stirring account of the religious, cultural and political motives which led to the British conquest of the Holy Land in 1917 and to the Balfour Declaration.
Author : James Carroll
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618219087
A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives. "Chicago Tribune" Novelist, cultural critic, and former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the two-thousand-year course of the Church s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life. Fascinating, brave, and sometimes infuriating ("Time"), this dark history is more than a chronicle of religion. It is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture to create a deeply felt work ("San Francisco Chronicle") as Carroll wrangles with centuries of strife and tragedy to reach a courageous and affecting reckoning with difficult truths."
Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0062098551
Commands to kill, to commit ethnic cleansing, to institutionalize segregation, to hate and fear other races and religions—all are in the Bible, and all occur with a far greater frequency than in the Qur’an. But fanaticism is no more hard-wired in Christianity than it is in Islam. In Laying Down the Sword, “one of America’s best scholars of religion” (The Economist) explores how religions grow past their bloody origins, and delivers a fearless examination of the most violent verses of the Bible and an urgent call to read them anew in pursuit of a richer, more genuine faith. Christians cannot engage with neighbors and critics of other traditions—nor enjoy the deepest, most mature embodiment of their own faith—until they confront the texts of terror in their heritage. Philip Jenkins identifies the “holy amnesia” that, while allowing scriptural religions to grow and adapt, has demanded a nearly wholesale suppression of the Bible’s most aggressive passages, leaving them dangerously dormant for extremists to revive in times of conflict. Jenkins lays bare the whole Bible, without compromise or apology, and equips us with tools for reading even the most unsettling texts, from the slaughter of the Canaanites to the alarming rhetoric of the book of Revelation. Laying Down the Sword presents a vital framework for understanding both the Bible and the Qur’an, gives Westerners a credible basis for interaction and dialogue with Islam, and delivers a powerful model for how a faith can grow from terror to mercy.
Author : Bryan M. Litfin
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1433523019
Four hundred years after a deadly virus and nuclear war destroyed the modern world, a new and noble civilization emerges. In this kingdom, called Chiveis, snowcapped mountains provide protection, and fields and livestock provide food. The people live medieval-style lives, with almost no knowledge of the "ancient" world. Safe in their natural stronghold, the Chiveisi have everything they need, even their own religion. Christianity has been forgotten—until a young army scout comes across a strange book. With that discovery, this work of speculative fiction takes readers on a journey that encompasses adventure, romance, and the revelation of the one true God. Through compelling narrative and powerful character development, The Sword speaks to God's goodness, his refusal to tolerate sin, man's need to bow before him, and the eternality and power of his Word. Fantasy and adventure readers will be hooked by this first book in a forthcoming trilogy.
Author : Kirby Page
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 1921
Category : War
ISBN :
Author : Davis Brown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0742565602
The Sword, the Cross, and the Eagle explores how Christian principles and the natural law tradition consider the use of military force and how they support the just war tradition over other moral traditions of war. By promoting the use of offensive war as justifiable under a just war rationale, the book challenges the Christian communityOs basic assumptions regarding the use of force. In this book, Davis Brown persuasively argues that the just war tradition drives the contemporary military ethos and statecraft of the United States. As the worldOs only superpower and the worldOs standard-bearer for democracy, the United States has more armed forces stationed or deployed outside its borders than all other countries combined. Because of this, the conduct of the United States—for good or ill—has enormous ramifications on the development of norms in international law and statecraft. It therefore behooves the international community to appreciate what values the United States seeks to advance when it resorts to military force.
Author : Rod Landreth
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1609765311
The Sword and the Spear contains stories, Bible verses, Christian parables and discussions about God’s true intention for his children to defeat "Satan’s Spear." Many will find themselves pierced by the deceptive and controlling influence of God’s most fa
Author : Peter Walpot
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780874868791
Part of a major doctrinal tract of the Hutterites of the sixteenth century, this early Anabaptist document gives Biblical references for Christian nonviolence. Concerning the Sword is the fourth article of the Article Book, a major doctrinal document of the Hutterites of the sixteenth century. Its author is not named but was probably the Hutterian bishop Peter Walpot (1521-1578). The book deals with the following five articles: (1) Concerning true baptism (and how infant baptism contradicts it); (2) Concerning the Lord's Supper (and how the sacrament of the priests is against it); (3) Concerning the true surrender (Gelassenheit) and Christian community of goods; (4) That Christians should not go to war nor should they use sword or violence nor secular litigation; (5) Concerning divorce between believers and unbelievers. The book is not a theological treatise, but rather, like all Anabaptist doctrinal writings, a collection of biblical texts topically arranged to prove the position of the church with regard to the question at issue. The title of the larger edition, A Beautiful and Pleasant Little Book Concerning the Main Articles of our Faith, is quite colorless; more to the point is the title used in the Chronicle of the Hutterian Brethren: The Five Articles of the Greatest Conflict Between Us and the World. It does not pretend to contain a complete system of Anabaptist thought but only a collection of those points and their arguments that distinguish the Brethren from the "world" and justify their particular stand. The Article Book must have been widely known in its time. Catholics as well as Lutheran polemics against it are known.