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Christian Martyrdom and Christian Violence - On Suffering and Wielding the Sword (Hardcover)
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Christian Martyrdom and Christian Violence - On Suffering and Wielding the Sword (Hardcover)
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What is the place-if any-for violence in the Christian life? At the
core of Christian faith is an experience of suffering violence as
the price for faithfulness, of being victimized by the world's
violence, from Jesus himself to martyrs who have died while
following him. At the same time, Christian history had also held
the opinion that there are situations when the follower of Jesus
may be justified in inflicting violence on others, especially in
the context of war. Do these two facets of Christian ethics and
experience present a contradiction? Christian Martyrdom and
Christian Violence: On Suffering and Wielding the Sword explores
the tension between Christianity's historic reverence for martyrdom
(suffering violence for faith) and Christianity's historical
support of a just war ethic (involving the inflicting of violence).
While the book considers the possibility that the two are
unreconcilable, it also argues that they are ultimately compatible;
but their compatibility requires a more humanized portrait of the
Christian martyr as well as a stricter approach to the justified
use of violence.
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