Sentences with phrase «pacifism which»

This, after all, is the basis for pacifism which, at its most basic holds that all war is wrong.

«I will do everything I can to stop my party becoming essentially a cheerleader, a vanguard for a sort of angry intolerant pacifism which sets a myriad of preconditions which they know will never be met and and will ultimately say no to any military intervention.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

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

Not exact matches

That thinking — markedly boosted by the carnage of the Great War, which was sparked in Sarajevo by a 19 - year old Bosnian student assassin, not a capitalist — made Labor a honey - pot for all forms of pacifism.

This seems largely to be the work of the devil; but I also suspect that it is in part an effect of the existence of pacifism, as a doctrine which many people respect though they would not adopt it.

Finally, the statement needed to explain why this issue is both more significant and less open to disagreement than other issues over which Christians disagree, such as just war and pacifism.

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.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

What the just war tradition is really good for is that together with pacifism it can identify and denounce the less restrained views which in fact dominate public discourse and decision - making.

Fraudulent pacifism, which is now making a noisy reappearance, is something else.

The Leninist Theory, in which the blame for war is put upon a structure, a system, or a «Machine,» rejects the corollary shared by pacifisms 1 and 2 that insists upon the cultivation of personal peacefulness.

Meanwhile, Protestant thought, influenced by the moral idealism and historical optimism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, followed a similar course but moved closer and closer to a form of utopian pacifism in which war would be eliminated because of the increasing perfection of human social institutions.

Some of the readings are little gems: Justin Moser's 1772 warning about the dangers associated with «Diminished Disgrace of Whores and Their Children in Our day»; T. E. Hulme's «Essays on War» (1916), which respond to Bertrand Russell's arguments for pacifism; and Winston Churchill's «Speech on Rebuilding the House of Commons» (1943), a remarkable critique of «rationalism in politics» by a Burkean - minded statesman.

Without knowing which of the many forms of pacifism (or liberalism or conservatism) one is referring to, no premise that is built around the word can be argued logically one way or the other.

So which form of pacifism are you referring to?

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.»

While Stanley Hauerwas has not developed a doctrine of God, nevertheless the cross, which is pivotal to his thought, his pacifism, his understanding of the Christian story and the relation of the church to the world, serves as his image of a suffering God whose power is that of noncoercive love (AN 56).

He is the author of six books, the latest of which are Christian Pacifism (Temple University, 1991) and St. John of the Cross (SUNY, 1992), and numerous articles.

Professor Cole notes that he is primarily interested in the pacifism represented by John Howard Yoder, which he correctly describes as the «pacifism of the «messianic community.

'» However, in the next sentence he elides this description in favor of «messianic pacifism,» which makes it appear that Yoder's understanding of pacifism is a position that can be isolated from his understanding of the Church.

In their flirtation with pacifism, liberal Christians are squeamish even about spiritual combat, in part because they're ashamed to believe in spirits, the order of creatures to which evil spirits belong.

In a lifetime which spans the best part of a century, he has been a prolific writer on topics ranging from neoclassical theism, the ontological argument for the existence of God, and philosophical psychology, to aesthetics, pacifism, and ornithology.

And then I was surprised — which is shocking itself — to discover a long history and tradition of Christian, faith - based pacifism.

There are six elements to nonviolent resistance, which differentiates it from pacifism and they are summed up well by Martin Luther King Jr. (King, Stride Toward Freedom, 1958, 84 - 88)

I am reading a lot recently about the «third way» teachings of Jesus, which is neither pacifism nor war, but a sort of an aggressive peacemaking.

The first, characteristic of Reinhold Niebuhr and other «Christian realists,» is to worry that this attempt at uniting justice and mercy will either water down the Christian ideal of pure love, which leads necessarily to pacifism even in the face of attack, or that it will persuade politicians to be irresponsibly merciful and trusting towards those nations and powers that threaten it.

These movements varied in tone from violent aggression to mild pacifism, but their motivation could all be traced back to Jewish and Christian prophecies in the ancient world, of which the few verses about the millennium in Revelation are the best example.

After World War II, which stimulated the American economy and created jobs, «business pacifism» was almost obliterated in America, and President Eisenhower's identification of a «military - industrial complex» seemed to confirm that war is good for business.

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.

You are also ignoring modern Japanese pacifism, which is very popular there.

As they fall for each other, the trio writes the Wonder Woman comic which explores psychology, BDSM, pacifism and feminist ideology.

A scheme of work which covers the causes of war, how it is justified politically and religiously, nuclear war, pacifism, north korea, 9.11 and terrorism, with an opportunity for an creative and analytical assessment.

This mind map includes a range of topics, which are; Peace, Peacemaking, Conflict, Pacifism, The Just War theory, Holy War, Weapons of mass destruction and Issues surrounding conflict.

And there's the beautifully pure Pacifism, in which players must simply survive against an onslaught of enemies without firing a shot.

* Pacifism — The old achievement from the first game, which is now devilishly hard and addictive.