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    Roots of Violence: Creating Peace through Spiritual Reconciliation
    Roots of Violence: Creating Peace through Spiritual Reconciliation
    Roots of Violence: Creating Peace through Spiritual Reconciliation
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    Roots of Violence: Creating Peace through Spiritual Reconciliation

    By Krister Stendahl

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    In an arrogant age that asks, "Why are Muslims so violent", this book asks from an unlikely perspective why Christians also are. This work is important because it takes an age-old question, religious violence, and makes it new again. In times like the ones of 2016, this intellectual material is vital. Krister wrote a series of talks in the 1980's on the edges of religious violence and how they often come from concepts of salvation. He believed that the Biblical understanding of salvation as victory was problematic, and proposed instead salvation as nirvana and salvation as shalom. He also proposed that we undergo searches through Scripture for images of peace, of reconciliation, of light. This thought is relevant to conflicts today. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParaclete Press
    Release dateSep 1, 2016
    ISBN9781612618708
    Roots of Violence: Creating Peace through Spiritual Reconciliation
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    Krister Stendahl

    Krister Stendahl, bishop, teacher, dean, chaplain, intellectual, lived from 1921 to 2008 and wove a web of freedom as he read the Bible and taught students at Harvard and around the globe. His perspective on women's freedom, on reconciliation, and on non-violence are vivid reminders that much goodness and kindness and challenge for peace emanates from the past.

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