Christian Peace and Nonviolence

"These extraordinary documents, which bear witness to the Christian commitment to peace across time, clarify that nonviolence is not a mere exception. It is at the very heart of what it means to be a follower of Christ .. . . An essential teaching resource not only for thinking through nonviolence but also for understanding the very character of Christianity." From the Foreword by Stanley Hauerwas From the Sermon on the Mount to the twenty-first century, this broadly ecumenical reader recounts the Christian message of peace and nonviolence. Through testimony by the confessors and martyrs of the early church, the voices of medieval figures like St. Benedict and St. Francis, as well as Erasmus, the Lollards, Anabaptists, and Quaker abolitionists, Christian Peace and Nonviolence presents a coherent story in which the peace message of Jesus is restored to its central place. Later sections highlight many of the great prophets of modern times, including Tolstoy, Dorothy Day, A. J. Muste, Tho