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The Price of Peace: Just War in the Twenty-first Century
Forewords: Rowan Williams, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Richard Dannatt,
Charles Reed & David Ryall (Editors)
(CUP,
Lively political and public debates on war and morality have been a feature of the post-Cold War world. The Price of Peace argues that a re-examination of the just war tradition is therefore required. The authors suggest that despite fluctuations and transformations in international politics, the just war tradition continues to be relevant. However they argue that it needs to be reworked to respond to the new challenges to international security represented by the end of the Cold War and the impact of terrorism.
The War on Terror: How Should Christians Respond?
Nick Solly Megoran
(Inter-Varsity Press 2007)
As incidence of terrorism increases at home and abroad, and
the war on terror mounts, how can Christians respond? Nick Solly Megoran
provides acute political analysis combined with rich biblical insight and
true stories of Christian courage in the face of adversity. He will equip
the reader to make informed judgments about the war on terror, as well as
practical - and radical - responses.
Dorothy Rowe:
Gordon Mursell:
Friends and Enemies: Our Need to Love and Hate
Dorothy Rowe
(HarperCollins new edition 2001)
If human beings crave good relationships, they also need bad ones. In imagining we have enemies we at least have the comfort of knowing that someone, somewhere, is thinking of us. At every level both people and nations seek out hate-figures, whether they are children at school or the Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo. By delving into what it is that makes us hate as well as what makes human behaviour, drawing upon her own prodigious wisdom and the work of neuroscientists and intelligence specialists to show not only what friendship is but how it may be learned as a skill.
The Story of Christian Spirituality: Two Thousand Years, from East to West (Hardcover)
Gordon Mursell
(Lion Hudson 2001)
The story of Christian spirituality must begin with the story of Jesus Christ, his life and teaching, death and resurrection - and the impact this had on his first followers. From these beginnings, the rich tapestry of Christian spirituality, prayer and worship develops.
Various key elements recur: one is the relationship between corporate worship centred around religious buildings and the individual's personal spiritual life; another ranges from a spirituality centred upon religious activity and ritual acts, sacraments and services, to a more word-based attention to preaching, teaching and scripture; and behind them all the constant tension between a quiet retreat into communion with God and being driven out again to earth spirituality in social action and the politics of the world.
Beyond Fear
Dorothy Rowe
(HarperCollins new edition 2007)
Dorothy Rowe shows us how to have the courage to acknowledge and face our fears -- only through courage can we find a sustaining happiness. 'Beyond Fear', first published in 1987, has changed the lives of thousands of people.
English Spirituality: From 1700 to the Present (Hardcover)
Gordon Mursell
(Westminster John Knox Press 2001)
Wanting Everything: Art of Happiness
Dorothy Rowe
(HarperCollins new edition 1992)
We come into the world expecting that we can have everything and seeing no reason why we should not have it. But we learn fast, learning that we can't always get what we want. The accompanying feelings of loss, frustration, anger, aggression, resentment and sadness can dominate the rest of our lives. This book is all about the frustration endemic in our experience of life.
Mark Juergensmeyer:
Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence
Mark Juergensmeyer
(University of California Press; 3Rev Ed edition 2003)
Beneath the histories of religious traditions - from biblical wars to crusading ventures and great acts of martyrdom - violence has lurked as a shadowy presence. Images of death have never been far from the heart of religion's power to stir the imagination. In this book, Mark Juergensmeyer asks one of the most important and perplexing questions of our age: Why do religious people commit violent acts in the name of their god, taking the lives of innocent victims and terrorizing entire populations?
My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend: Making and Breaking Sibling Bonds
Dorothy Rowe
(Routledge, new edition 2007)
Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution
Mark Juergensmeyer
(University of California Press; 2Rev Ed edition 2005)
A primer of Mahatma Gandhi's principles of moral action and conflict resolution and offers a straightforward, step-by-step approach that can be used in any conflict - -at home or in business; in local, national, or international arenas. This invaluable handbook, updated with a new preface and a new case study on terrorism in Northern Ireland, sets out Gandhi's basic methods and illustrates them with practical examples.
Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison
Dorothy Rowe
(Brunner-Routledge, new edition 2003)
(Customer review:) This is the best book I have ever read about depression! (I have read a lot of them). While cognitive-behavioural type self-help books on depression made me feel even more miserable (for example, suggesting to think only good thoughts), this book was touching and inspiring- it show where these thoughts come from!
Global Religions: An Introduction
Mark Juergensmeyer
(Oxford University Press Inc, USA; New Ed edition 2003)
Not only are adherents of particular faiths spread across the globe, but there are many variations of a particular faith practiced side by side. This has only become more true in recent years as the pace of globalization has quickened. The essays collected here provide brief and accessible introductions to the major world religions in their global contexts.
Paul Rogers:
Brian Wicker:
Beyond Terror: The Truth About the Real Threats to Our World
Chris Abbott, Paul Rogers, John Sloboda
(Rider & Co 2007)
Is international terrorism really the single greatest threat to world security? Since the 9/11 attacks, many Western governments assume terrorism to be the greatest threat we face. In response, their dangerous policies attempt to maintain control and keep the status quo by using overwhelming military force. This important book shows why this approach has been such a failure, and how it distracts us from other, much greater, threats of climate change, competition over resources, marginalisation of the majority of the world and global militarisation.
Britain's Bomb: What Next?
Brian Wicker
(SCM 2006)
The decision of whether or not to replace Trident, the nuclear weapon system created in the cold war era, has to be taken before the next general election. Currently the Labour government look likely to support replacing the nuclear capacity of the UK, despite the prime minister's own acknowledged religious beliefs, and the many formidable reasons against such a decision. These are not only political questions, but strategic and ethical questions too.
Norman Kember:
Hostage in Iraq (Hardcover)
Norman Kember
(Darton,Longman & Todd 2007)
Witnesses to Faith?: Martyrdom in Christianity and Islam
(Hardback)
Brian Wicker (ed.)
(Ashgate 2006)
11 September 2001 in New York; 11 March 2004 in Madrid; 7 July 2005 in London: these dates remind us that suicide bombings, or 'martyrdom operations' have become the common coin of international politics in the West. But what exactly is meant by 'martyrdom' today, whether in Islam or Christianity? This book tries to give an answer. Muslim and Christian scholars come together to find a common understanding, based on the scriptures and traditions of each faith, of martyrdom in today's violent world.
Giles Fraser
Derek Wilson
Christianity and Violence (Affirming Catholicism)
Giles Fraser
(Darton,Longman & Todd 2001)
Does religion breed violence? This book examines the ideas of Girard, Nietzche, Anselm and Tutu
Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds
(Hardcover)
Donald W. Shriver
(OUP, 2005)
Renowned public theologian and ethicist Donald W. Shriver, Jr. argues that we must acknowledge and repent of the morally negative events in our nation's past. The failure to do so skews the relations of many Americans to one another, breeds ongoing hostility, and damages the health of our society. events in American history is essential to the health of our Yet our civic identity today largely rests on denials, forgetfulness, and inattention to the
memories of neighbors whose ancestors suffered great injustices at the hands of some dominant majority.
Christianity with Attitude
Giles Fraser
(Canterbury Press Norwich 2007)
A compilation of the author's writing for various media and covers a range of subjects from Christmas and Easter to atheism, sex and death.
An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics
Donald W. Shriver
(OUP, new edn. 1998)
How can former enemies learn to live together in peaceful political association? What enables them to put aside traditional hatreds and forgo revenge despite grievous harms suffered at each other's hands? Shriver aims to rescue the concept of forgiveness from the solely personal and religious realms to which it has long been delegated, and to demonstrate its relevance, indeed its indispensability, to political life.
Apocalypse Now?: Reflections on Faith in a Time of Terror
Duncan B. Forrester
(Ashgate; New Edition 2005)
In "Apocalypse Now?", Duncan Forrester argues that disorders and atrocities which include the Gulag, the Holocaust, 9/11, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and the Tsunami disaster have shown us that we stand not at the end of history but in the midst of an apocalyptic age of terror which has striking similarities to the time in which Christianity was born. Moving between two times of terror - the early Centuries of Christianity, and today - Forrester asks how religious motivations can play a positive role in the midst of conflicts and disasters.
The Land of Unlikeness: Explorations into Reconciliation
David Stevens
(Columba Press 2004)
The book comes out of the experience of living in the society of Northern Ireland which has undergone some level of political violence during the whole of the authors adult life. It is therefore about Northern Ireland but it is not only about Northern Ireland because there are lots of societies experiencing violent conflict or coming out of violent conflict.
Exclusion and Embrace: Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation
Miroslav Volf
(Abingdon Press,U.S. 1994)
This is a beautiful and powerful examination of the forces that bring us together or tear us apart. Volf is a thoughtful Protestant theologian born in Croatia who has experienced first hand all of the devastating consequences of "exclusion" as practiced between his people and Serbia. He looks at the many ways we exclude people who are different from ourselves by dehumanizing, judging, labeling and demonizing. And so we perpetuate injustice and victimization.
