Just Revolution: A Christian Ethic of Political Resistance and Social Transformation
Anna Floerke Scheid
Despite the U.S Catholic Bishops’ 1983 declaration that “insufficient analytical attention has been given to the moral issues of revolutionary warfare,” theological scholarship has been slow to engage in systematic analysis of what makes a revolution ethical or unethical.Just Revolution: A Christian Ethic of Political Resistance and Social Transformationaims to address this lacuna. What principles and practices ought to guide people who want to free themselves from dictatorial or oppressive governments?
With this question in mind, this book focuses on oppressed peoples as agents of their own processes of social transformation. The model of just revolution proposed endeavors to limit violence to do the least possible harm while overcoming political oppression, working toward a justice, and promoting long-term efforts at peacebuilding and sociopolitical reconciliation.
Using the South African struggle against apartheid as a case study,Just Revolutionposits an ethic for revolutionary activity that begins with nonviolent just peacemaking practices, allows for limited and restrained armed resistance in accordance with revised just war criteria, and promotes post-revolutionary transitional justice and social reconciliation. Together the practices and criteria that emerge from this study yield a rich and theologically grounded ethic of just revolution.
With this question in mind, this book focuses on oppressed peoples as agents of their own processes of social transformation. The model of just revolution proposed endeavors to limit violence to do the least possible harm while overcoming political oppression, working toward a justice, and promoting long-term efforts at peacebuilding and sociopolitical reconciliation.
Using the South African struggle against apartheid as a case study,Just Revolutionposits an ethic for revolutionary activity that begins with nonviolent just peacemaking practices, allows for limited and restrained armed resistance in accordance with revised just war criteria, and promotes post-revolutionary transitional justice and social reconciliation. Together the practices and criteria that emerge from this study yield a rich and theologically grounded ethic of just revolution.
年:
2015
出版社:
Lexington Books
语言:
english
页:
188
ISBN 10:
0739190946
ISBN 13:
9780739190944
文件:
PDF, 1017 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2015