Sentences with phrase «from pacifist»

This is when Pakistan started to experience a major shift from a pacifist sub-continental-Persian religious tradition into a violent, Wahhabi - inspired dogmatic creed.

From the pacifist standpoint, this was a pretty weak outcome of the deliberations.

Such hopes gathered momentum from the pacifist reaction to World War I and from the new technology of strategic air bombardment.

For a thorough discussion of this passage from a pacifist point of view, see John Howard Yoder, The Polities of Jesus (Grand Rapids.

At Red Letter Christians, Marty Troyer wrote an excellent piece about The Hunger Games from a pacifist perspective.

As we've seen in recent seasons, it's caused Morgan to go from pacifist to vengeful killer and Daryl to someone similarly bent on revenge.

But a chorus of dissatisfaction with just war theory is gaining strength in the U.S., and not just from pacifists and others who dissent from the tradition on principle.

Not exact matches

Abe has made reviving the economy his top priority, a big shift from his first term when his main agenda was to loosen the limits of Japan's pacifist constitution on the military and restore national pride and patriotism.

Iraq's liberation from Saddam Hussein and his criminal underlings by the coalition of the willing last year has breathed life into many Labor activists — including Federal Labor leader Mark Latham — who are afflicted by anti-Americanism and / or pacifist inclinations.

Many people believe along with the pacifists that war does indeed necessarily involve evil actions and so any attempt to impose a moral standard on our conduct is doomed from the start.

A UM Action fundraising letter from May this year reminded readers that twenty years ago a UMC hymnal committee attempted to drop «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» and «Onward, Christian Soldiers» as «too militarist to fit the church's current pacifist stance.»

It could be that despite his public stance, (1) Obama secretly believes that «war is not the answer» and privately relayed his true pacifist beliefs and commitment to unilateral military withdrawal from Afghanistan only to his «spiritual advisor,» Brian McLaren.

The sharpest point of disagreement concerns the question whether Bonhoeffer's involvement in the conspiracy against Hitler signaled a shift away from his earlier pacifist commitment.

Suddenly the pacifist movement was all but swept from sight.

Pacifists and proponents of nonviolence have to understand that the man of blood is not excluded from the love of God.

One can be non-violent without being a pacifist — resistance can be far from passive without being violent.

Jesus, as described in the gospels, was at times assertive, forceful, commanding, and far from passive or pacifist — but not violent.

I am a pacifist, and I believe that if we are truly faithful God will always deliver us from evil, either now or in the sweet By and By!

His death was a tissue of ironies: a man who had fought for monastic solitude for over 25 years died thousands of miles from his Kentucky hermitage; this passionate pacifist was flown back from Thailand in a military plane, from an airfield that was part of the network of military bases that prospered during the Vietnam years.

In the book's first chapter, «Why the Christian Church is not Pacifist,» he argued that «the failure of the Church to espouse pacifism is not apostasy, but is derived from an understanding of the Christian Gospel which refuses simply to equate the Gospel with the «law of love.»

He called pacifists «parasites,» death - of - God theologians «infants,» religious services at the White House «complacent conformity,» and, to the end, the name «Richard Nixon» could evoke from him well - chosen epithets.

It will be irenic in the sense that we shall seek to appreciate the extent to which perfectionist and pacifist interpretations of Christianity are derived from genuine and important elements in our common faith.

Russell's remark about the pacifist dispute occurs at p. 100 of his account of Whitehead in Portraits from Memory (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951).

Then I quoted from Reinhold Niebuhr's letter to a pacifist who was reluctant to favor the Allied war effort against Hitler:

Reinhold Niebuhr, more and more convinced that the law of love can not be an absolute guide of conduct in social morality and politics, defected from the ranks of the FOR early in 1934 and became a kind of bête noire to pacifists — especially to those who claimed that pacifism was politically adequate.

Its dominantly pacifist position forces on it the character of a protest movement, encouraging individual action in withdrawing from «destructive work»; but it has given some attention to constructive alternatives, such as research in agriculture and small industries or technical assistance openings in under - developed countries.

The Doctor has drifted pretty mightily from his old pacifist ways, two - hearts - and - a-screwdriver, and the anti-gun rhetoric, most particularly seen in Ten.

We must keep in mind that when pacifists of the messianic community give advice to just warriors, it is, from their point of view, like giving advice to prostitutes on how to practice their profession more justly.

Finally, the difficulty pacifists of the messianic community have in trying to think in just war terms is further evident from Hauerwas and Sider's parting shot: to wit, if just war is compatible with the gospel, then why be sad about fighting a just war?

From 1947 to 2008... All in the name of their Pacifist God... Ironic... Reagan talked Saddam in Iraq, into going to war with Iran... and that Iran - Iraq war lasted the full term of Reagan's run in the Oval Office...1980 - 1989..

Now, I am not a pacifist (I am from Oklahoma after all.)

Public figures ranging from Theodore Roosevelt to the British pacifist Bertrand Russell called for outside intervention.

A pacifist of the latter type, if he is sincere, does not withdraw from conflict but gives himself to the limit of his power in deeds of love and ministry to human need.

In James Davison Hunter's To Change the World, Stanley Hauerwas is quoted as follows: It is alleged that by definition a pacifist must withdraw from political involvement.

I have grown increasingly dissatisfied with the gulf separating pacifists from defenders of just war.

The issue of the justifiability of violence needs to be faced squarely and debated vigorously in the churches, and pacifists and non-pacifists can learn much from each other in this debate.

Still it seems as though everybody tries hard to lay claim to the man from Nazareth — the revolutionary and the pacifist, the Marxist and the capitalist, the evangelical and the liberationist.

What is interesting is how much that God changes when Christ supposedly arrives and completely changes the narrative of the bible from one of a dominant violent jealous God named Yhwh to an inclusive pacifist who turns the other cheek when given offense.

As the threat from Nazi Germany increased, in the late 1930s the Labour Party gradually abandoned its pacifist stance and came to support re-armament, largely due to the efforts of Ernest Bevin and Hugh Dalton who by 1937 had also persuaded the party to oppose Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement.

A case certainly can be made for him as a precursor of Blue Labour in one respect — his faith — but it was this very faith that made him such a dogmatic pacifist and thus sundered him completely from working class patriotism.

They found that in some circumstances pacifists «helped» aggressive microbes to be more efficient in utilising resources obtained from the host.

Howl, a sloppy if handsome cartoon prince, goes from being a brash warrior to an angry pacifist while periodically sprouting wings and undergoing other physical transformations.

It's definitely not a huge issue for Will Gerard (Nicolas Cage, in a now - uncharacteristically subdued — one could argue bored — performance), a high school English teacher and an avowed pacifist whose wife Laura (January Jones) is physically and sexually assaulted one night on her way home from music rehearsal.

Magneto also faces opposition from former ally Dr. Xavier (Patrick Stewart), the pacifist headmaster of a school for «homo superiors» that eagerly takes both Rogue and Wolverine under its wing.

The Lone Ranger may refuse to fire a gun unless absolutely necessary, but the film hardly shares his pacifist philosophy, its abundant carnage ranging from scary carnivorous rabbits to an ambush in which Butch kills half a dozen Texas Rangers and finishes the job by eating Dan Reid's heart.

It examines three specific films in which Charlie Chaplin explored the topic of war and the evolution of his personal views and his use of dark comedy, spanning almost thirty years from being pro-war in Shoulder Arms (1918), a pacifist and anti-war in The Great Dictator (1940), and Monsieur Verdoux (1947) is about the individual's war against society and business interests that provoked international wars.

Being pacifists, the ALF squad uses umbrellas to shield the creature from tranquilizer darts and apologizes to the shooters when they knock them down, all in slow - motion and to John Denver's «Annie Song.»

A beautifully complex film about why we fight, Howard Hawks's WWI heart - stirrer comes from the diary of Alvin York, a poor Tennessean and religious pacifist who nonetheless took up a rifle and became an ace marksman.

«Hacksaw Ridge,» Mel Gibson's latest high - minded cinematic massacre, tells the story of Desmond T. Doss, a God - fearing American pacifist who served as a combat medic during World War II and personally carried 75 wounded soldiers from the Battle of...

Hard - core pacifists are advised to stay away from this film, since it tells the story of a man who starts out as one but ultimately becomes a WWI war hero.