Nonviolent action
Subtitle: what Christian ethics demands but most Christians have never really tried
By: Ronald J. Sider ; foreword by Richard J. Mouw
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781587433665
Subjects: Nonviolence; History; Christianity; Christian ethics
Description: A noted theologian and bestselling author shows how nonviolent action has been practiced in history and in current social-political situations to promote peace and oppose injustice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Proving it works: from early beginnings to stunning success; title: Early developments; title: Gandhi: defeating the British Empire; title: Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhian nonviolence: the battle against American racism; title: Nonviolent intervention in guerrilla warfare; title: Wheelchairs versus tanks; title: Part II. Defeating the Soviet Empire; title: Solidarity: a trade union and the Pope versus Communist dictators; title: The revolution of the candles: the nonviolent overthrow of East German Communists; title: Part III. Recent victories of a growing movement; title: "Gather the women to pray for peace": Liberian women overthrow a dictator; title: Nonviolence in the Arab Spring; title: Intervening, accompanying, and reporting: the growth of peacemaker teams; title: Part IV. The time to act; title: Truly testing the possibilities of nonviolent action: for the first time in Christian history; title: The moral equivalent of war.