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Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace
by Glen H. Stassen
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press (1992-07)
ISBN: 0664252982
EAN: 9780664252984
Dewy Decimal #: 261.873
Paperback: 292 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 40-7F7E-FLNX
Condition: Good
Comments: Former owner's library sticker inside front cover. Pages are unmarked. Expedited shipping is available.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
"Stassen helps to mediate between the two rival traditions of just war theory and pacifism by his politically imaginative hermeneutic". -Alan Geyer Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.
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Customer Reviews
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Beautiful book for peacemakers
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-11-11
Dr. Stassen's book is a careful, reasoned cross between interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount and how the principles there are applied. Although a bit dated (published in 1992), Stassen deals with the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. He uses specific examples from the history of Europe and America in the 1980's to demonstrate that the people of the world do not have to settle for perpetual war and conflict; rather, there are practical steps we can take to seek peace with one another.
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Required Reading for every President
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-06-27
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
This should be on the coffee table, magazine rack, bookshelf, and waiting room of every serious national leader. Conscientious voters should also read this in order to understand what it takes to make political peace in the world. But Stassen is not merely political, he's actually biblical first of all. He exegetes like a biblical scholar while making applications which only a leading Christian ethicist like he could. Just peacemaking shows that "just war theory" can lead to peace while restraining war, and that passifism is an extremely ACTIVE practice. EXCELLENT!
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Great practicle application of the Sermon of the Mount.
Rating (5)
Date: 1998-04-18
5 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
Stasson does an incredible job in his ability to interpret and apply the teaching of Jesus to every day life. While often the sermon on the mount is ignored in Christian teaching and literature because so many people find it hard to understand or live up to, Stasson shows how Jesus teachings don't trap people, but rather set them free to break away from the patterns of sin and pain.
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