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Note: Starred works are by Quaker authors.
Andrews, Charles Freer. The Sermon on the Mount. Foreword by Rabindranath Tagore. New York, Macmillan, 1942. 174p. The author, an Anglican, was a close friend of Gandhi.
Augsburger, Myron S. The peacemaker. Nashville, Abingdon, 1987. 208p. Includes material on the N.T. basis of pacifism.
Barrett, Lois. The way God fights; war and peace in the Old Testament. Scottdale PA, Herald Pr., 1987. (Peace and justice series, 1) 78p. Explores the nonviolent meanings of "Holy War."
Berrigan, Daniel. "Till the end of empire." "Unflinching faith." "A frightful vision." The Other Side, July/Aug - Nov/Dec 1990. Three-part series on the book of Daniel.
Berrigan, Philip and McAlister, Elizabeth. The time's discipline: the Beatitudes and nuclear resistance. Baltimore, Fortkamp, 1989. 286p. Uses the Beatitudes as a framework for the authors' account of their antinuclear activities.
Brown, Dale W. Biblical pacifism: a peace church perspective. Elgin, Ill. Brethren Pr., 1986. 203p. Includes peace statements of Brethren, Mennonite and Quaker bodies.
The Christian attitude toward war: the words of Christ commonly quoted for or against war. A compendium prepared for study groups. n.p., n.d. 48p. 1940 revision of 1929 pamphlet by Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.
*Cronk, Sandra. Peace be with you; a study of the spiritual basis of the Friends Peace Testimony. Tract Assn of Friends, n.d. 32p.
*A Declaration on peace: in God's people the world's renewal has begun. Douglas Gwyn and others. A contribution ot ecumenical dialogue sponsored by Chruch of the Brethren, Fellow-ship of Reconciliation, Mennonite Central Committee, Friends General Conference. Scottdale PA, Herald Pr., 1991. 109p. Biblical focus. Appendices include documents from 1948 and 1953 and a chronology of ecumenical dialogues on peace.
Douglass, James W. The nonviolent coming of God. Maryknoll NY, Orbis, 1991. 236p. Draws parallels between Jesus's views on eschatology and our own nuclear age.
Eller, Vernard. War and peace from Genesis to Revelation: King Jesus' manual of arms for the 'armless. Scottdale PA, Herald, 1981. 216p. Lucid exposition of what the Bible means by "living in that life and power which takes away the occasion for all wars" challenges doves as well as hawks.
Ferguson, John. The politics of love: the New Testament and nonviolent revolution. Nyack NY, Fellowship, 1979. 118p.
Franz, Mariana Claassen. Questions that refuse to go away; peace and justice in North America. Scottdale PA,, Herald, 1991. (Peace and justice series, 13) 102p.
Hammer, Paul L. Shalom in the New Testament. Philadelphia, United Church Pr., 1973. 30p.
Hengel, Martin. Victory over viiolence: Jesus and the revolutionists. Introduction by Robin Scroggs. Philadelphia, Fortress, 1973. 67p. Deals with "political theology" as it developed within Palestinian Judaism between 334 BC and the time of Christ, and examines contemporary parallels.
Keeney, William. Lordship as servanthood: thirteen lessons on the Biblical basis of peacemaking. Newton KS, Faith & Life Press, 1975. 112p. No discussion questions.
Kreider, Alan. Journey towards holiness; a way of living for God's nation. Scottdale PA, Herald, 1987. 301p. Traces the evolution of the concept of social holiness from the Old Testament to the New and explores the implications for us today.
Kreider, Robert S. and Goossen, Rachel Waltner. When good people quarrel: studies of conflict resolution. Scottdale PA, Herald, 1989. 198p. Mennonite case studies of conflict in family, interpersonal, church, school and community settings, with Bible quotes and discussion questions.
*Lamoreau, John and Beebe, Ralph. Waging peace: a study in Biblical pacifism. Newberg OR, Barclay, 1980. 62p.
McGinnis, James. Hope springs from God; a congregational life/intergenerational experience. New York, United Church Pr., 1988. 3v, filmstrips, audiocassette. (A Living the Word resource) Directions for six events focusing on Christian hope in the face of the nuclear arms race and poverty.
MacGregor, G.H.C. The New Testament basis of pacifism and The relevance of an impossible ideal. Rev. ed. Nyack NY, Fellowship, 1954. 160p.
McSorley, Richard. New Testament basis of peacemaking. Washington, Center for Peace Studies, 1979. 167p.
*Macy, Howard R. The shalom of God. Richmond IN, Friends United Press, 1872. 36p. Four talks from the Bible Half-Hours at New England YM in 1972. Includes discussion questions.
*Mills, Paul M. The Bible and war. Newberg OR, Barclay Press, 1968. 24p. Evangelical Quaker perspective.
Myers, Ched. Binding the strong man: a politicl reading of Mark's story of Jesus. Maryknoll NY, Orbis, 1988. Schol- arly work reads Mark as a "manifesto of radical discipleship" offering a model for Christian nonviolent resistance to social, economic, and political domination.
Poteat, Edwin McNeill. Parables of crisis. New York, Harper, 1950. 255p. Views the Lukan parables in the light of eschatology and relates them to the situation of 1949.
Priestley, Denise. Bringing forth in hope: being creative in a nuclear age. New York, Paulist, 1983. 81p. Uses Revelation 12 to explore Christian hope in the shadow of the Bomb.
Sider, Ronald. Christ and violence. Scottdale PA, Herald Press, 1979. 108p.
Steiner, Susan Clemmer. Joining the army that sheds no blood. Kitchener ON, Herald Pr., 1982. 155p. The Biblical basis of conscientious objection for teens. Mennonite author.
Stringfellow, William. Conscience and obedience: the politics of Romans 13 and Revelation 13 in the light of the second coming. Waco Tx, Word, 1977. To "honor the emperor," as Scripture commands, we must sometimes oppose him.
Stringfellow, William. An ethic for Christians and other aliens in a strange land. Waco TX, Word, 1973. 156p. Identifies America with Babylon in the book of Revelation, and offers hope for transcending our culture's bondage to death.
Swartley, Willard M. Slavery, sabbath, war and women. Scottdale, PA, Herald Pr., 1983. 363p. A Mennonite scholar uses four key issues to illustrate problems in interpeting the Bible.
Trocmé, André. Jesus and the nonviolent revolution. Translated by Michael H. Shank and Marlin E. Miller. Scottdale PA, Herald, 1973. (The Christian peace shelf) 211p. Presents Jesus as a vigorous revolutionary who is capable of saving the world without violence.
*Vaclavik, Charles P. The vegetarianism of Jesus Christ. Three Rivers CA, Kaweah, 1986. 352p. The pacifism, communalism and vegetarianism of primitive Christianity.
Williams, James G. The Bible, violence and the sacred; liberation from the myth of sanctioned violence. San Francisco, Harper, 1991. 288p. Argues that the Bible contains resources for countering its own mythology of sacrifice, scapegoating and sanctioned violence.
Yoder, John Howard. He came preaching peace. Sponsored by the New Call to Peacemaking. Scottdale PA, Herald, 1985. 143p. Lectures on the Biblical foundations of pacifism.
Yoder, John Howard. The politics of Jesus. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1972. 260p. Classic work on the New Testament basis of Christian social ethics and pacifism.
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