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Must Christianity Be Violent?

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by Kenneth R. Chase

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Paperback
Publisher
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published
July 2007
Weight
368g

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The Crusades. The Conquest of the Americas. U.S. Slavery. The Jewish Holocaust. Mention of these events evokes a variety of responses from Christians, including guilt, defensiveness, and bewilderment. Given such a tangled historical relationship to aggression and injustice, how can Christians answer those who argue that our faith is inherently violent, or that Christian doctrines inevitably lead to sacrifice, conquest, and war? In Must Christianity Be Violent? editors Kenneth R. Chase and Alan Jacobs have gathered pointed essays that provide specific responses to these arguments. Divided into \"\"histories,\"\" \"\"practices,\"\" and \"\"theologies,\"\" the essays explore the historical causation of Christian violence and discuss practices that promote what one contributor calls \"\"just peacemaking.\"\" The contributors explore the history of Christian violence and advocate the need for an uncompromised biblical theology in our search for peace. This timely collection will appeal to readers of Christian history, ethics, and theology, and those who want to better understand the specifically Christian response to violence and cultivation of peace. Kenneth R. Chase is Associate Professor of Communication at Wheaton College. Alan Jacobs is Professor of English at Wheaton College. He is the author of A Visit to Vanity Fair.