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I The Commandments of Gospel Nonviolence 1
1 The Last Words of Jesus 3
2 The Beatitudes of Peace 6
3 Our Image of God 11
4 The Politics of the Sacred Heart 14
5 Resurrection! 17
6 The Common Ground of Interfaith Nonviolence 20
II Nonviolence in Action 25
7 Sackcloth and Ashes 27
8 Standing Up at the School of the Americas 32
9 To the Tombs and Back 35
10 The Santa Fe Nine 39
11 Generosity, Not Domination 42
III Pilgrimages of Nonviolence 45
12 A Pilgrimage to Gandhi's India 47
13 Witness for Peace in Colombia 80
14 The Road Isn't Easy 110
IV Practitioners of Nonviolence 115
15 Dr. King's Daring Nonviolence 117
16 The Moral Leadership of Ignacio Ellacuria, Cesar Chavez, and Philip Berrigan 124
17 Ten Nobel Peace Laureates 134
18 Henri Nouwen's Spirituality of Peace 137
19 Denise Levertov's Peacemaking Poetry 141
20 Joan Baez: A Voice for Peace 144
21 Bill O'Donnell: Peacemaking Priest 147
22 On Retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh 154
23 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose 158
24 Franziska and Franz Jagerstatter 162
V The Vision of Nonviolence 169
25 The Earth Means the World to Me 171
26 The Wisdom of Thomas Merton 175
27 A World without War 183
Acknowledgments 190
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Sam Dirickson
reviewed Put down Your Sword: Answering the Gospel Call to Creative Nonviolence on August 26, 2020
Put down Your Sword: Answering the Gospel Call to Creative Nonviolence
2.5 stars. A weird little book. A disjointed mix of diary entries, tributes to activists, peacemakers, and martyrs, and the author's own musings and accounts of his own peacemaking and nonviolent protest activities. I'm left a bit unsure what to make of it. The chapter on Colombia is the best. It's heartbreaking in its depictions of first-hand accounts of Colombians who suffer at the hands of the US backed paramilitary terrors, with hundreds being killed or displaced to make way for multinational corporations to take over their land.
The rest is a sometimes insightful, sometimes bland mix of platitudes about how bad nuclear war and American imperialism is and a strange, almost bragging and ultimately offputting treatment about how many times Dear and his friends have been arrested for civil disobedience. It almost feels like he is fetishizing being arrested and mistreated in the name of nonviolent activism. I'm sympathetic to Dear's thesis that Jesus advocated a nonviolent approach, but for some reason his treatment left me a bit cold.
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Add Put down Your Sword: Answering the Gospel Call to Creative Nonviolence, Few books on the market share not only a vision of Jesus' nonviolence but also ways of actually living out that same vision today. Who better to write such a work than Father John Dear, an internationally known peacemaker? Put Down Your Sw, Put down Your Sword: Answering the Gospel Call to Creative Nonviolence to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Put down Your Sword: Answering the Gospel Call to Creative Nonviolence, Few books on the market share not only a vision of Jesus' nonviolence but also ways of actually living out that same vision today. Who better to write such a work than Father John Dear, an internationally known peacemaker? Put Down Your Sw, Put down Your Sword: Answering the Gospel Call to Creative Nonviolence to your collection on WonderClub |
