Alan Billings

The Dove, the Fig-Leaf and the Sword (eBook, ePUB)

Why Christianity changes its mind about war

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why does the pacifist movement of the first few centuries so quickly become an organization that supports emperors and finds reasons for fighting? ? What leads the Church to formulate just war principles only to abandon them when in pursuit of heretics and infidels? ? What impact did two world wars have on Christian thinking? ? Why have the churches in more recent years and a more secular age apparently taken a more cautious approach to war? These are the sort of questions this absorbing book sets out to answer. It makes a unique and intriguing contribution to the literature published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War in August 2014.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SPCK
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780281072255
• Artikelnr.: 41007295

Autorenporträt

The Revd Canon Dr Alan Billings is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day' and the author of Dying and Grieving, Secular Lives Sacred Hearts, and God and Community Cohesion, all published by SPCK.