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- catalog abstract ""Spiritual practices of peacemaking, Michael Battle says, are essential to, crucial for, the mystical process of losing and finding identity in God who constantly invites us toward relationship and community. Any spirituality of nonviolence in the community of peacemaking faces formidable challenges. The obvious obstacle of "just war" - just one corollary of the constant struggle for survival in a world seemingly bent on self-destruction - continues to raise its ugly head. And what of other loud pretenders of Christian "spirituality" who peach the validity of "just war," the at-any-cost survival of the "righteous"? Genuine Christian "spirituality," Battle rightly insists, involves no contradiction between individual and communal fulfillment, but involves instead our participation in the divine bending toward potentiality rather than destruction. Violence, that is, destruction of reality, is in fact the antithesis of Christian spirituality. Christian spirituality, practiced in the midst of a solipsistic and violent world, engenders divine reality that bids the human heart toward peace, genuine wholeness, and toward the "real" world of divine intent." --Book Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13276087.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Spiritual practices of peacemaking, Michael Battle says, are essential to, crucial for, the mystical process of losing and finding identity in God who constantly invites us toward relationship and community. Any spirituality of nonviolence in the community of peacemaking faces formidable challenges. The obvious obstacle of "just war" - just one corollary of the constant struggle for survival in a world seemingly bent on self-destruction - continues to raise its ugly head. And what of other loud pretenders of Christian "spirituality" who peach the validity of "just war," the at-any-cost survival of the "righteous"? Genuine Christian "spirituality," Battle rightly insists, involves no contradiction between individual and communal fulfillment, but involves instead our participation in the divine bending toward potentiality rather than destruction. Violence, that is, destruction of reality, is in fact the antithesis of Christian spirituality. Christian spirituality, practiced in the midst of a solipsistic and violent world, engenders divine reality that bids the human heart toward peace, genuine wholeness, and toward the "real" world of divine intent." --Book Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-271) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Western spirituality and violence -- Pneumatology : a definition of communal spirituality -- Gandhian spirituality : a corrective to Western individualism -- Peacemaking as spiritual direction toward sainthood -- Peacemaking : re-envisioning Western Christian spirituality through non-violence -- Appendix: Survey of reader's own nonviolent typology.".
- catalog extent "281 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0865548714 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press,".
- catalog subject "261.8/73 22".
- catalog subject "BT736.6 .B38 2004".
- catalog subject "Nonviolence Religious aspects Christianity.".
- catalog subject "Spirituality.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Western spirituality and violence -- Pneumatology : a definition of communal spirituality -- Gandhian spirituality : a corrective to Western individualism -- Peacemaking as spiritual direction toward sainthood -- Peacemaking : re-envisioning Western Christian spirituality through non-violence -- Appendix: Survey of reader's own nonviolent typology.".
- catalog title "Blessed are the peacemakers : a Christian spirituality of nonviolence / Michael Battle.".
- catalog type "text".