The Pacifist Option
The Moral Argument Against War in Eastern Orthodox Theology
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
| Author: | Alexander F.C. Webster | ISBN: | 9781461721116 |
| Publisher: | International Scholars Publications | Publication: | May 27, 1999 |
| Imprint: | International Scholars Publications | Language: | English |
| Author: | Alexander F.C. Webster |
| ISBN: | 9781461721116 |
| Publisher: | International Scholars Publications |
| Publication: | May 27, 1999 |
| Imprint: | International Scholars Publications |
| Language: | English |
In this path-breaking study, Fr. Alexander Webster convincingly demonstrates that a distinctive pacifist trajectory, characterized by the moral virtues of non-violence, nonresistance, voluntary kenotic suffering, and universal forgiveness, has endured through two millennia of Eastern Orthodox history in unbroken continuity with the ancient Church. Webster consults a vast array of primary texts including Holy Scripture, patristic writing through the Byzantine era that terminated in AD 1453, Orthodox canon law from the Seven Ecumenical Councils and other Byzantine Greek legal sources among others. Of interest to historians and to students of theology and religion.
In this path-breaking study, Fr. Alexander Webster convincingly demonstrates that a distinctive pacifist trajectory, characterized by the moral virtues of non-violence, nonresistance, voluntary kenotic suffering, and universal forgiveness, has endured through two millennia of Eastern Orthodox history in unbroken continuity with the ancient Church. Webster consults a vast array of primary texts including Holy Scripture, patristic writing through the Byzantine era that terminated in AD 1453, Orthodox canon law from the Seven Ecumenical Councils and other Byzantine Greek legal sources among others. Of interest to historians and to students of theology and religion.
