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Christian pacifism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christian pacifism is the theological and ethical position that any form of violence is incompatible with the Christian faith. Christian pacifists state that Jesus himself was a pacifist who taught a...
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Pacifism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Don Murphy publishes a Japanese Christian newsletter which he distributes to various Hutterite communities in North America. He also publishes a newsletter for an itinerant Irish priest and has written several articles and pamphlets on pacifism and spirituality.
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It is now being published in booklet form in the hope that it may contribute to the current discussion of Christian social ethics, a discussion which promises to be increasingly fruitful as ... Theoretically, this attitude of willingness to suffer rather than to retaliate could be called Christian pacifism. To top of page...
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Nonresistance is a central practice for the Anabaptist heritage of Christian witness and discipleship. At this location, there are links to writings by Anabaptist-Mennonite writers on the subject of nonresistance which are currently available on the World Wide Web. ... "The Jewishness of Early Christian Pacifism"
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My own introduction to Christian pacifism came in the form of John Howard Yoder’s book The Politics of Jesus. Until I read Yoder, I imagined pacifism as the sort of thing only fringe political groups or the politically naive could embrace;
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In all my years as a Christian, all the sunday schools, all the Bible studies, I never came across this verse. And probably for good reason; it certainly seems to conflict with the standard Christian image of an all-powerful God.
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