Christian attitudes toward war and peace : a historical survey and critical re-evaluation / Roland H. Bainton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Nashville : Abingdon Press, c1960 (1983 printing)Description: 299 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0687070279 (pbk.)
  • 9780687070275 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.88 B161c
LOC classification:
  • BT736.2 .B3 1983
Contents:
Ideals of peace in antiquity -- The classical origins of the just war -- The origins of the crusading idea in the Old Testament -- War and peace in the New Testament -- The pacifism of the early church -- The theory of the just war in the Christian Roman Empire -- From the just war to the crusade and sectarian pacifism -- The renaissance utopia and the revival of the just war -- Wars of religion -- The historic peace churches and war with Aborigines -- The Enlightenment -- From Waterloo to Armageddon: a century of comparative peace -- From the outlawry of war to the atom bomb -- Past and present -- What then?

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 269-288.

Ideals of peace in antiquity -- The classical origins of the just war -- The origins of the crusading idea in the Old Testament -- War and peace in the New Testament -- The pacifism of the early church -- The theory of the just war in the Christian Roman Empire -- From the just war to the crusade and sectarian pacifism -- The renaissance utopia and the revival of the just war -- Wars of religion -- The historic peace churches and war with Aborigines -- The Enlightenment -- From Waterloo to Armageddon: a century of comparative peace -- From the outlawry of war to the atom bomb -- Past and present -- What then?

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