Nonviolent action : what Christian ethics demands but most Christians have never really tried / Ronald J. Sider.
2015
241.697 S568n 2015
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Title
Nonviolent action : what Christian ethics demands but most Christians have never really tried / Ronald J. Sider.
Author
ISBN
9781587433665 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1587433664 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1587433664 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Grand Rapids, Michigan : Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2015]
Language
English
Description
191 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number
241.697 S568n 2015
System Control No.
(OCoLC)894149478
(OCoLC)894149478
(OCoLC)894149478
Summary
A noted theologian and bestselling author shows how nonviolent action has been practiced in history and in current social-political situations to promote peace and oppose injustice.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Proving it works: from the early beginnings to stunning success
Early Developments
Gandhi: defeating the British Empire
Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhian nonviolence: the battle against American racism
Nonviolent intervention in guerrilla warfare
Wheeheelchairs versus tanks
Defeating the Soviet Empire
Solidarity: a trade union and the Pope versus communist dictators
The revolution of the candles: the nonviolent overthrow of East German communists
Recent victories of a growing movement
"Gather the women to pray for peace": Liberian Women Overthrow a Dictator
Nonviolence in the Arab Spring
Intervening, accompanying, and reporting: the growth of peacemaker teams
The time to act
Truly testing the possibilities of nonviolent action for the first time in Christian history
The moral equivalent of war.
Early Developments
Gandhi: defeating the British Empire
Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhian nonviolence: the battle against American racism
Nonviolent intervention in guerrilla warfare
Wheeheelchairs versus tanks
Defeating the Soviet Empire
Solidarity: a trade union and the Pope versus communist dictators
The revolution of the candles: the nonviolent overthrow of East German communists
Recent victories of a growing movement
"Gather the women to pray for peace": Liberian Women Overthrow a Dictator
Nonviolence in the Arab Spring
Intervening, accompanying, and reporting: the growth of peacemaker teams
The time to act
Truly testing the possibilities of nonviolent action for the first time in Christian history
The moral equivalent of war.
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