Bodies of Peace: Ecclesiology, Nonviolence, and Witness

Myles Werntz

ene 2014 · Fortress Press

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Bodies of Peace argues that Christian nonviolence is both formed by and forms ecclesial life, creating an inextricable relationship between church commitment and resistance to war. In this volume, Myles Werntz examines the work of John Howard Yoder, Dorothy Day, William Stringfellow, and Robert McAfee Brown, demonstrating how each thinker's advocacy for nonviolent resistance depends deeply upon the ecclesiology out of which it comes. The volume argues that any account of an ecclesially-informed resistance to war must be open to a multitude of approaches, not as pragmatic concessions, but as a foretaste of ecumenical unity.

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Myles Werntz is assistant professor of biblical studies and theology at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida. He is the co-editor of Corners in the City of God: Theology, Philosophy, and The Wire (2013), as well as of two other posthumous volumes by John Howard Yoder.