Put down your sword
Subtitle: answering the Gospel call to nonviolence
By: John Dear.
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.; Eerdmans
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780802863577
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Doctrines; Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church; Peace -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Description: "Put Down Your Sword invites us into Jesus' way of nonviolence as presented by the Gospels. Arguing that all Christians must follow Christ's example in the ways of peace, Dear outlines the many actions he himself has taken following the path of nonviolence, modeling his own vision of peace in this turbulent world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Commandments of Gospel nonviolence; title: The last words of Jesus; title: The Beatitudes of peace; title: Our image of God; title: The politics of the sacred heart; title: Resurrection!; title: The common ground of interfaith nonviolence; title: Nonviolence in action; title: Sackcloth and ashes; title: Standing up at the School of the Americas; title: To the tombs and back; title: The Santa Fe Nine; title: Generosity, not domination; title: Pilgrimages of nonviolence; title: A pilgrimage to Gandhi's India; title: Witness for peace in Colombia; title: The road isn't easy; title: Practitioners of nonviolence; title: Dr. King's daring nonviolence; title: The moral leadership of Ignacio Ellacuríia, César Chávez, and Philip Berrigan; title: Ten Nobel Peace laureates; title: Henri Nouwen's spirituality of peace; title: Denise Levertov's peace making poetry; title: Joan Baez :a voice for peace; title: Billo'Donnell : peace making priest; title: On retreat with Thichnhat Hanh; title: Sophie Scholl and the white rose; title: Franziska and Franz Jäagerstäatter; title: The vision of nonviolence; title: The earth means the world tome; title: The wisdom of Thomas Merton; title: A world without war.