Peacemaking and Religious Violence: From Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Jefferson

by Roger A. Johnson

Book Overview

From its very beginning, Christian faith has been engaged with religious violence. The first Christians were persecuted by their co-religionists and then by imperial Rome. Jesus taught them, in such circumstances, not to retaliate, but to be peacemakers, to love their enemies, and to pray for their persecutors. Although Jesus's response to religious violence of the first century was often ignored by many of his followers, by others it was never forgotten...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0718892402
• ISBN13: 9780718892401
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"