Bodies of Peace : Ecclesiology, Nonviolence, and Witness / Myles Werntz ; cover design, Laurie Ingram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Werntz, Myles, author.

Contributor:

Ingram, Laurie, cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Nonviolence.

Pacifism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Pacifism.

Physical Description:

ix, 314 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Fortress Press, 2014.

Summary:

This book argues that Christian nonviolence is both formed by and forms ecclesial life, creating an inextricable relationship berween church commitment and resistance to war. In this volume, Myles Werntz examines the work of John Howard Yoder, Dorothy Day, William Stringfellow, and Robert McAfee Brown, demonstrating how each thinker's advocacy for nonviolent resistance depends deeply upon the ecclesiology out of which it comes. The volume argues that any account of an ecclesially-informed resistance to war must be open to a multitude of approaches, not as pragmatic concessions, but as a foretaste of ecumenical unity. --back cover

Contents:

War, Church, and the Plurality of Witness

The Church AS Nonviolent: John Howard Yoder, Dialogical Nonviolence, and the Church's Performance

The Church FORMING Nonviolence: Dorothy Day, The Mystical Body, and the Logic of Tradition

The Church as NAMING Nonviolence: William Stringfellow, The Powers, and the Word's Renewing Work

The Church SUPPORTING Nonviolence: Robert McAfee Brown, CALCAV, and Worldly Ecumenicity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781451480429

1451480423

9781451489460

1451489463

OCLC:

898271026