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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465614503321

Autore

Wallace Catherine M.

Titolo

Confronting religious violence : Christian humanism and the moral imagination / / Catherine M. Wallace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Eugene, Oregon : , : Cascade Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4982-2882-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (122 p.)

Collana

A Confronting Fundamentalism Book

Disciplina

241.697

Soggetti

Violence - Religious aspects - Christianity

Christian humanism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Confronting Religious Violence: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination tells the tale of Christian theocracy in the West. Who converted whom was never entirely clear: the empire did stop feeding people to the lions for public entertainment; but Christianity was theologically corrupted by its official role in legitimating empire-as-usual. That theological corruption led to crusades, inquisitions, torture, and so forth. And it leaves us with a major question: is God violent? More dangerously yet: is violence our only option in response to wrongdoing? Are we morally obligated to injure thos



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910375846703321

Titolo

CHI 2004 : connect : conference proceedings : April 24-29, Vienna, Austria : Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems : Vienna, Austria, April 24-29

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Association for Computing Machinery, 2004

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (742 p.;)

Collana

CHI letters  CHI 2004

Disciplina

004/.019

Soggetti

Human-computer interaction - Human factors

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Computer software

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Computer Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph