Sentences with phrase «regarding war and peace»

The ambiguity of Jesus» teaching regarding war and peace remains.

Such matters neither produce nor eliminate the biblical ambiguity regarding war and peace, but they have their importance, as we shall see.

There is ambiguity regarding war and peace in the prophets of the Old Testament, but they give a high value on shalom, and Yahweh is the Giver of that shalom.

The ambiguity regarding war and peace and the historical fact that our texts come from a patriarchal society are not unrelated.

The prophets share in the biblical ambiguity regarding war and peace.

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.

At first glance it seems that the ambiguity regarding war and peace, which is so sharp in the Old Testament, has been resharpened in the Apocalypse.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

The problem with trying to reconcile these two conceptions of Catholic ethics regarding war — the «peace tradition» of the religious life and the just war tradition of secular life — is precisely that they are so fundamentally different.

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

Because of their leading role in the world — first in winning the war, then in rebuilding the peace — Americans were highly regarded, and Pope Pius XII sent them a letter, expressing his admiration and expectations: «The American people,» he began, «have a genius for splendid and unselfish action, and into the hands of America, God has placed the destinies of afflicted humanity.»