Author: Martin Burgess Green
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Languages : en
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Author: Steve Hickey
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725285371
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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Very few if any have devoted more years to practicing and teaching others to practice the precepts of Jesus's Sermon on the Mount than Leo Tolstoy. He stands apart in the history of interpretation and has had enormous influence on others and other countries. Yet, Gandhi or others often get the glory. Tolstoy is remembered as a great writer, but his religious and philosophical works are by and large unknown or disparaged, even in scholarly Tolstoyan circles. His contribution is substantially under-appreciated and misunderstood. In Second Tolstoy: The Sermon on the Mount as Theo-tactics, Steve Hickey captures the particulars and dynamics of Tolstoy's interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount from a deliberately sympathetic vantage point. Underlying this project is shared belief with Tolstoy that the Sermon on the Mount is liveable and to be lived. While from the vantage point of traditional orthodoxy Tolstoy got much wrong, there remains a lack of appreciation for what he got right--radical obedience to the teachings of Jesus. A new vocabulary is proposed to more precisely capture Tolstoyan lived theology, namely the political and social expressions of Tolstoyan Christianity, with the hope that these theories and practices will gain a wider consideration, understanding, and following.

Author: Robert Inchausti
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791406779
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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This book examines how the spiritual longings of ordinary people have shaped the most progressive political and cultural movements of the twentieth century and given birth to a new postmodern perspective on existence that recoups the traditional religious verities on the far side of both literary modernism and neo-Marxism. Inchausti focuses on figures who have been instrumental in defending the sacred traditions of indigenous cultures and oppressed minorities. He demonstrates that Mahatma Gandhi, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Elie Wiesel, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, and Lech Walesa share an ethic that is, at once, plebeian in origin and yet sublime in aspiration.

Author: Martin Green
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: James H Billington
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351519816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma, Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors, people who preached social justice transcending traditional national, ethnic, and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as "remarkable, learned and lively," while The New Yorker noted that Billington "pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing." It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life.

Author: Siglind Bruhn
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9781576470961
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 668

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Author: Michael True
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815603672
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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American history abounds with a rich tradition of literature dealing with nonviolence. In a work that spans from the seventeenth century to the present, Michael True brings to light the strong but long-neglected strain in American culture: nonviolence as an active response to conflicts and divisiveness. In identifying writings about action for social change, he distinguishes literary works from peace advocacy and nonviolence and relates them to broad currents of United States history. The Quakers of the 1680s and abolitionists of the 1850s, the sanctuary Movement and Plowshares of the 1980s, novelists (from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Norman Mailer) and poets (from Walt Whitman to Denise Levertov) all have written powerful works on nonviolent action. Through this literature, the author explores the beauty of an important theme in American literature. At a time when people face widespread injustice, True reminds us that nonviolence holds a significant place in our country's history.

Author: Jyotirmaya Sharma
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415585759
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Mrinal Miri has been one of the most influential philosophers in recent times, apart from also being a teacher, writer and academic administrator. He has written on a variety of topics in the areas of tribal identity and ethics, and has substantial contributions in the areas of analytical philosophy, political philosophy and Gandhian thought. The essays in this volume seek to enhance and restate these themes, especially in moral and Gandhian philosophy, ethics and questions of identity, and offer a fresh perspective on secularism, religion and politics. Miri himself comments on these essays, locating them within contemporary debates as well as within specific intellectual traditions, thus expanding their salience and contemporaenity.

Author: Peter Ackerman
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 125010520X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 561

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This nationally-acclaimed book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century. Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall depict how nonviolent sanctions--such as protests, strikes and boycotts--separate brutal regimes from their means of control. They tell inside stories--how Danes outmaneuvered the Nazis, Solidarity defeated Polish communism, and mass action removed a Chilean dictator--and also how nonviolent power is changing the world today, from Burma to Serbia.

Author: Tristram Stuart
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393052206
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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How Western Christianity and Eastern philosophy merged to spawn a political movement that had the prohibition of meat at its core.