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The Pacifist Option: The Moral Argument Against War in Eastern Orthodox Theology

The Pacifist Option: The Moral Argument Against War in Eastern Orthodox Theology

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781573092449
Publisher: International Scholars Publications
Imprint: International Scholars Publications
Pub date:
DEWEY: 241.6242088219
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 351
Weight: 540g
Height: 223mm
Width: 142mm
Spine width: 24mm