Violence and Christian spirituality
Subtitle: an ecumenical conversation
By: [edited by Emmanuel Clapsis].
Contributors: Clapsis, Emmanuel.; Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.; World Council of Churches.; Boston Theological Institute.
Publisher: WCC Publications; Holy Cross Orthodox Press; WCC Publications, World Council of Churches
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland; Brookline, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9782825415054; 9781885652911
Subjects: Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Congresses; Ecumenical movement -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Papers presented at the International Conference on Violence and Christian Spirituality sponsored by the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in cooperation with the World Council of Churches and the Boston Theological Institute and held October 27-29, 2005, at Holy Cross.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch; title: Preface / Jane Love; title: Greetings / Nicholas C. Triantafilou; title: Christian spirituality of peace and justice in a violent world / Archbishop Demetrios of America; title: Overcoming violence: an ecumenical Christian task / Samuel Kobia; title: Violence, religion and globalization / Nikos Kotzias; title: Peace, human development and overcoming violence / Ioannis Petrou; title: New paths in spirituality and peacemaking / Marc Gopin; title: Interreligious discourse: hermeneutics and fundamentalism / Richard Kearney; title: Non-violence in the Orthodox tradition / Georges Tsetsis; title: Witnessing the peace of God in a violent world / Antonios Kireopoulos; title: Branding identity for the twenty-first century: church as neighbourhood centre for forgiveness and reconciliation and for restorative justice / Rodney L. Petersen; title: Christian anthropology for a culture of peace: considering the church in mission and dialogue today / Athanasios N. Papathanasiou; title: Spirituality and suffering / Lucien J. Richard; title: Violence and the Freudian "death instinct": a Christian Orthodox point of view / Adamantios G. Avgoustidis; title: Domestic violence: violence against women / Paulette Geanacopoulos; title: Domestic violence: Orthodox pastoral perspectives / Philip Mamalakis; title: Domestic violence at home: cursory observations / Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald; title: Ecumenical perspective on domestic violence / Diane C. Kessler; title: Dickensian era of religious rights: Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox contributions / John Witte, Jr.; title: Ecumenical perspectives on religious freedom and human rights: response to John Witte / David Hollenbach; title: Response to John Witte / David Little; title: Beyond the Dickensian paradoxes of human rights: reconceptualizing proselytism, rediscovering evangelism / Elizabeth H. Prodromou; title: Ecumenical spirituality for a culture of peace / Konrad Raiser; title: Trinitarian approach to ecumenical peace church ecclesiology / Fernando Enns; title: Ambivalence, subjectivity and spiritual life / Emmanuel Clapsis; title: Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God / Thomas Fitzgerald; title: Forgiveness and reconciliation according to the patristic tradition / George Dion. Dragas; title: Experiencing the justice of God in the liturgy / Alkiviadis C. Calivas; title: Saints: an embodied presence of God's peace / James C. Skedros; title: Spirit of compassion in the canonical tradition of the church / Lewis Patsavos; title: Spirituality, violence and the desire for nonviolence: another view and perspective / Metropolitan Gennadios of Sassima; title: Listener's report / Anton C. Vrame.