Sentences with phrase «finds pacifism»

From Kim: As someone who finds pacifism compelling in theory, though not necessarily in practice, how do feel about physically defending others?

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A pacifism which belittles or ignores this aspect of the cross will not, for very sound reasons, find a welcome hearing among evangelical Christians.

I know pacifism isn't the issue pre se here but I find many principles of either pacifism or NVR are giving with examples that seem to fit that particular belief and men are lauded who successfully utilized it - but rarely are those circumstances repeated.

But, like pacifism itself, this absolutist interpretation of the right to life found no echo at the time among Catholic theologians, who accepted the death penalty as consonant with Scripture, tradition, and the natural law.

In other words, the message of messianic pacifism finds a ready home in those who have already accepted certain beliefs of a liberal — humanistic persuasion (e.g., that the use of force is out of step with the moral and spiritual progress of humanity).

If we try to go farther back, it is possible that we find forerunners of the Pharisees in the «Chasidim», or «pious», who in the time of Antiochus practised partial pacifism.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

I find in my own tradition (as well as other traditions), the thought that pacifism means doing nothing, just sitting by as violence occurs.

Instead of gaining appreciation for the power of pacifism, Christian decides to seek retribution from the confrontational mechanic, plotting revenge with the gunpowder of found old fireworks.