Title: Violence; reflections from a Christian perspective.
Authors: Ellul, Jacques.
Publisher: Seabury Press
Year: 1969
Subjects: Violence Religious aspects Christianity
Contents: Traditional views. Compromise -- Nonviolence -- Violence -- Today's Christians for violence. The singling out of the poor -- The basic presuppositions -- The three possible orientations -- The character of Christian participation in violence -- The theological consequences -- Christian realism in the face of violence. Violence as necessity -- The law of violence -- Are there two kinds of violence? -- Rejection of idealisms -- The fight of faith. Necessity and legitimacy -- Christian radicalism -- The violence of love.