Celebrating Peace

Celebrating Peace

Leroy S. Rouner

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Longleaf - Univ of Notre Dame du Lac
Año de edición:
2022
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Filosofía social y política
ISBN:
9780268007799
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Coming in the wake of momentous changes in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, Germany and the movement for democracy in China, Celebrating Peace presents original essays by thinkers and writers to provide reflections on peace that go beyond current events and point towards extending and building peace. This volume intends not only to celebrate peace but to contribute to an understanding of it through philosophical, theological and literary explorations.Contributors include:Part I: Just War, Perpetual Peace, and the Nation-StateJohn J. Gilligan, John H. Yoder, Sissela Bok, and Stephen ToulminPart II: Christian Conceptions of PeaceTrutz Rendtorff, Jurgen Moltmann, and Paul S. MinearPart II: Hindu and Buddhist Views of PeaceGerlad J. Larson, Ninian Smart, and Bhukhu ParekPart IV: Making Peace: Prophecy, protest and poetryDaniel Berrigan, S.J., and Denise Levertov

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