Disarming the Heart: Toward a Vow of Nonviolence

by John Dear

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080912842X
• ISBN13: 9780809128426
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

NECESSARY FOR EVERY SELF-PROCLAIMED CHRISTIAN TO READ AND TO VOW

As back cover of this beautiful book mentions how at one time, in the earliest days, asking a Christian to take a vow of non-violence would appear redundant with baptism. Now it appears urgent in the light of so many violent Christians, including those involved in our imperial warfare. People no longer understand that to be Christian is to be pacifist. To be Christian means to offer the other cheek. To be Christian is to Love Your Enemy and to do good to those who harm you. To treat others the way you want them to treat you. First. At least, that is what Christ commanded us. This book calls us back to our original Christian commitment. This book explicitly states the essential mission of the Christian, as Jesus himself explicitly states it in the Gospels. Love one another, as I have loved you. Every church which claims the name of Christ must pray upon this book, and take this vow, explicitly, as we now hav elost our way so badly as a Christian people who can kill a million Iraqis for oil, calling it a religious war. Christians do not have religious wars. Christians are truly by their commitment non-violent. This book calls us back to our origins and to our mission and to our meaning. We do have meaning, which is peace. Dare to swear to it. This book shows how and why. Although twenty years old now, this book is more necessary each passing day. It could save our nation from itself.

A Call To Conversion

In Disarming The Heart, John Dear takes the reader into the heart and soul of what it means to move our lives towards nonviolence.He movingly draws from personal experience, and from the lives of other peacemakers, about what it means to become nonviolent. The reader whether new to nonviolence, or wrestling with continued conversion of their own lives, will be drawn into these pages.John Dear has drafted a compelling work which reminds us that a nonviolent life is not acheived simply by professing a vow of nonviolence -- but by incorporating nonviolence into every aspect of our lives.