Sentences with phrase «war and peace as»

Some years ago, when I was a member of Audible (I'm not anymore as I've got such a backlog of books to read for BookBrowse, plus our library has a great selection now) I downloaded a copy of War and Peace as a bonus book because it was so cheap.

It will help people bring together different manifestations of the same title, to identify, for example, War and Peace as an original work — providing a mechanism for bringing together all printed and digital editions, as well as products in a whole range of other media.

Lily has gone on to star in the BBC's adaptation of War and Peace as well as play the role of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (directed by Kenneth Branagh) with her on - screen Prince Charming Richard Madden at the Garrick Theatre.

She becomes Chuck's obsession based solely on her looks, to the point where he not only does her book report for her, he chooses War and Peace as the book in question to impress her.

I first sensed the ambiguity of the Bible regarding war and peace as a child, listening to my father and mother quote scripture to each other in their ongoing debate about this issue.

Not exact matches

He also led America toward victory in World War II and, as History.com notes, laid «the groundwork for the post-war peace organization that would become the United Nations.»

The notion of containment as an alternative to both war and peace came to define American strategy during the Cold Wwar and peace came to define American strategy during the Cold WarWar.

North and South Korea have technically still been at war since then, as the cessation of fighting was only enabled by an armistice signed in 1953 rather than a peace agreement.

Thiel stated during the campaign that Trump offered a better hope of peace than Hillary Clinton, but Trump's closest adviser has said he expects to go to war with nuclear - armed China within a decade and envisions a civilizational clash with the entire Muslim world as well.

Recently, he's focused on the profit motive as a powerful tool for turning hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance.

Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia, tells the News Agency that peace will elevate country's expansion forever, as he urges Colombians to assist conclude the «senseless war» among the authorities and rebel fighters & # 13

But almost every other foreign policy responsibility, McDougall shows, lies in a no - man's - land between the various branches of government: No mention is made of a power to recognize or de-recognize foreign regimes, terminate treaties as opposed to make them, make peace as opposed to war, declare neutrality in the wars of others, annex or cede territory, bestow or deny foreign aid, impose sanctions, regulate immigration and the status of aliens...

Kohl had vivid childhood memories of the horrors of war (he had watched neighbors dying during a bombardment), and he took Adenauer as his model, enthusiastically promoting the process of European integration as the surest guarantee of peace.

In the political realm, this encompasses the commitments of the liberal peace to human rights and even accountability for war criminals, but it also includes the redress of the wide range of wounds that tyrannical violence inflicts through a correspondingly wide range of practices that bring a measure of restoration to victims as well as perpetrators.

♦ Throughout the late and unlamented Cold War, no religious organization so assiduously toed the Communist line as the Prague - based Christian Peace Conference.

= > Now at least you're starting to acknowledge that the odds of the universe «just happening» are as remote as 100 monkeys banging out War and Peace.

«As they did through decades of civil war, the churches once again stand as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.&raquAs they did through decades of civil war, the churches once again stand as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.&raquas one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.&raquas strong as ever.&raquas ever.»

As church peace activists relentlessly chanted, during the Cold War America was often racist, indifferent to poverty, supported dictatorships, deployed nuclear weapons that could kill millions, and slew countless thousands in proxy wars.

Peace to you Reality and Guys for helping me to realize why you dispute religions and not for disbelieving but for knowing that this is not what is reflected on earth towards each other as you saw more hate among them than it is love and more wars among them than it is peace...?!? But surely what we are doing is not the right solution to correct this and to make them do what they should for good deeds causes and not co-nspir-acy cauPeace to you Reality and Guys for helping me to realize why you dispute religions and not for disbelieving but for knowing that this is not what is reflected on earth towards each other as you saw more hate among them than it is love and more wars among them than it is peace...?!? But surely what we are doing is not the right solution to correct this and to make them do what they should for good deeds causes and not co-nspir-acy caupeace...?!? But surely what we are doing is not the right solution to correct this and to make them do what they should for good deeds causes and not co-nspir-acy causes..

When TPers refer to Hitler, the man who burned down the Reichstag and blamed it on Communists, then proceeded to hunt them to extinction in Germany, then declared war on the Soviet Union even though he had a peace treaty with them; when TPers refer to this man as a LIBERAL — why, it boggles the mind.

In other words, this text is not about how to go to heaven when you die, but rather about how to go from slavery to death in this world as we war against others (Eph 2:1 - 3), to unity and peace with others as we live in the family of God (Eph 2:11 - 22).

Contending that the empire option dramatically compromises the gospel vision of peace, Nelson - Pallmeyer jettisons just - war theory and advocates reclaiming Jesus» radical model of nonviolence, He challenges Christians to reject militarism and those aspects of their religious tradition that encourage or endorse violence, and he presents nonviolent alternatives that refuse to sanction violence as part of Cod's providential care of the world.

As the BBC screens an epic new dramatisation of War and Peace, Dr Alexandre Christoyannopoulos explains Leo Tolstoy's (1828 - 1910) radical understanding... More

Clergy were scarcely perceived as nondirective listeners as they joined the movements for civil rights and peace, or the war on poverty.

The major Christian tradition has not been pacifism, in the sense of refusal to share in any war, but it has been a testimony for peace in the sense that war is seen as a necessary evil at best and never something in which to glory.

Then, partly as a result of the comparative peace and prosperity following World War II, a third billion was added by 1960, a fourth by 1974, the fifth before 1990 and the sixth by 1998.

Some of the deepest divides within Christiandom regarding war, peace, politics, and Biblical interpretation were brought to light last night, and they served as sober reminder of both my own sin and the challenge facing the modern Church.

And our work has changed over the years as the war has turned into a relative time of peace which then turned into the massive rise of ISIS and the displacement of millions of people, and then an extremely difficult fight against ISAnd our work has changed over the years as the war has turned into a relative time of peace which then turned into the massive rise of ISIS and the displacement of millions of people, and then an extremely difficult fight against ISand the displacement of millions of people, and then an extremely difficult fight against ISand then an extremely difficult fight against ISIS.

In The Challenge of Peace, their 1983 pastoral letter, the bishops «identified as critical the need for arms control and disarmament, efforts to minimize the risk of «any war.»»

A weapon of war, and just as easily become a weapon of peace depending on whos hand it is placed in!

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

Execute all christian war mongers and those who support them, as would have to be done for org religion to end, otherwise wchristian warmongers and supporters would have to convert to the Ways of peace as outlined BY JESUS CHIRST!

Despite the slogan («Peace Is Our Profession») of the Strategic Air Command of the U.S. Air Force, which has been in charge of strategic nuclear weapons as well as the high altitude bombing of Vietnam, having more and fancier weapons will not make us more safe, and these weapons will not prevent war or save lives.

Since without such authority there is no entity competent to determine just cause, exercise right intention, aim at the establishment of peace, and control armed forces in accord with the moral limits of the jus in bello, this lack of sovereignty means that the United Nations as an institution can not have a jus ad bellum in the fundamental just war sense.

Nuclear deterrence, as the strategic doctrine which has justified nuclear weapons in the name of security and war prevention, must now be categorically rejected as contrary to our faith in Jesus Christ who is our life and peace.

As we have seen, Thomas Aquinas» jus ad bellum consists of the requirements of sovereign authority, just cause, and right intention, including the purpose of peace, often listed as a separate requirement in recent just war thoughAs we have seen, Thomas Aquinas» jus ad bellum consists of the requirements of sovereign authority, just cause, and right intention, including the purpose of peace, often listed as a separate requirement in recent just war thoughas a separate requirement in recent just war thought.

But somehow right intention, including the end of peace, has been forgotten here, and these prudential requirements are represented as themselves being «the traditional elements in what is called the «just war» doctrine.»

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

Then there is the sad and, to my mind, unmistakable fact that people who have adopted the so - called «presumption against war» tend to get things wrong, time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq Wwar» tend to get things wrong, time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq WWar wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq WWar and the recent Iraq WarWar.

I would go so far as to suggest that the capacity to celebrate sexuality is linked inextricably with the capacity to court peace, instead of war; justice, instead of oppression; life, instead of hunger, torture, fear, crime, and death.

Certainly individuals are different than nation states (by this I mean that as individuals our choices are clearer - not that we can not properly discern whether a particular war is or is not necessary - but even then its much much tougher) and matters of war and peace are very much filled with variables men and women as individuals would have an a very difficult task of unwinding to find some acceptable scenario.

As an individual I seek peace when at all possible with all men and I protect and nurture the defenseless and believe that acheiving a perfect article of belief that states war or defense is immoral is the height of prideful arrogance coming from a mere mortal as I myself and others arAs an individual I seek peace when at all possible with all men and I protect and nurture the defenseless and believe that acheiving a perfect article of belief that states war or defense is immoral is the height of prideful arrogance coming from a mere mortal as I myself and others aras I myself and others are.

When society is ordered, or perhaps more correctly we should say disordered, on the basis of a situation in which not only is there starvation as the aftermath of war but millions of people are hungry all their lives, there can be no just and lasting peace.

The peace treaties and the postwar flood of prewar documents had driven me to a pretty thoroughly disillusioned pacifism, as regards modern war.

Traditional Christian reading may not primarily have used the Old Testament as an experience of what it means to live in a world of war and peace.

It is well known that shalom is not peace as in absence of war and that it is not a static notion.

Here we can try to see, as honestly as we can, how far the biblical ambiguity regarding war and peace continued in the life and writings of the early Christian community.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

For our ethical considerations on peace, peace - ministry, conflict resolution, Christians may profit from reading the Old Testament, our Holy Scripture, as a witness to the experience of a people in war and peace with other nations and as a reflection on what peace requires of the community.

9 As we might put it, he will carry out a program of disarmament and, instead of declaring war on the Gentiles, or «putting them to flight with his threats,» he will make overtures of peace to them.