The Pacifist Option by Alexander Webster

The Pacifist Option by Alexander Webster

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Zusammenfassung

In this path-breaking study, Fr. Alexander Webster convincingly demonstrates that a distinctive pacifist trajectory, characterized by the moral virtues of non-violence, nonresistance, voluntary kenotic suffering, and universal forgiveness, has endured through two millennia of Eastern Orthodox history in unbroken continuity with the ancient Church.

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The Pacifist Option by Alexander Webster

In this path-breaking study, Fr. Alexander Webster convincingly demonstrates that a distinctive pacifist trajectory, characterized by the moral virtues of non-violence, nonresistance, voluntary kenotic suffering, and universal forgiveness, has endured through two millennia of Eastern Orthodox history in unbroken continuity with the ancient Church. Webster consults a vast array of primary texts including Holy Scripture, patristic writing through the Byzantine era that terminated in AD 1453, Orthodox canon law from the Seven Ecumenical Councils and other Byzantine Greek legal sources among others. Of interest to historians and to students of theology and religion.
The Pacifist Option is a work of first-rate historical and theological scholarshipIf you are looking for a good solid read that will help shore up theological underpinnings of you work as a military chaplain, I highly recommend this book. It will also serve well as an Orthodox Christian moral theology, for those unacquainted with the Orthodox tradition. -- Chaplain (CPT) Isaiah R. Gillete * The Army Chaplaincy *
Likely to provoke discussion within Orthodox circles, this work contributes to the growing literature which tries to make the Orthodox tradition relevant to contemporary social concerns. * Religious Studies Review *
Likely to provoke discussion within Orthodox circles, this work contributes to the growing literature which tries to make the Orthodox tradition relevant to contemporary social concerns. * Religious Studies Review *
The Pacifist Option is a work of first-rate historical and theological scholarship. If you are looking for a good solid read that will help shore up theological underpinnings of you work as a military chaplain, I highly recommend this book. It will also serve well as an Orthodox Christian moral theology, for those unacquainted with the Orthodox tradition. -- Chaplain (CPT) Isaiah R. Gillete * The Army Chaplaincy *
Alexander F.C. Webster is a Professorial Lecturer of Religion, American University and a Parish Priest, St. Mary Orthodox Church, Falls Church, VA.
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ISBN 13 9781573092432
ISBN 10 1573092436
Titel The Pacifist Option
Autor Alexander Webster
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Rowman & Littlefield
Erscheinungsjahr 1999-05-27
Seitenanzahl 366
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