Apocalypse now? : reflections on faith in a time of terror / Duncan B. Forrester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forrester, Duncan B., 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Terrorism.

Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Violence.

Church and social problems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Apocalypse Now?, Duncan Forrester argues that disorders and atrocities including the Gulag, the Holocaust, 9/11, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and the Tsunami disaster have shown us that we stand in the midst of an apocalyptic age of terror with striking similarities to the time in which Christianity was born. He asks how religious ideas can play a positive role in the midst of conflicts and disasters and argues that there are huge resources in the Christian tradition that can be productively deployed for a constructive and faithful response.

Contents:

1. Vexed by a rocking cradle

2. Things fall apart : the long, bloody twentieth century

3. After the cold war : the end of ideology?

4. The public voice of resurgent religion

5. The rebirth of apocalyptic

6. Conflicting virtues : saints or heroes?

7. Virtues in conflict

8. Just war and just peacemaking.

Notes:

First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-136) and index.

ISBN:

1-351-95776-7

1-138-41048-9

1-315-26234-7

1-281-89398-6

9786611893989

0-7546-8779-1

9781315262345

OCLC:

319492057