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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964009903321

Autore

Forrester Duncan B. <1933->

Titolo

Apocalypse now? : reflections on faith in a time of terror / / Duncan B. Forrester

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2005

ISBN

1-351-95776-7

1-138-41048-9

1-315-26234-7

1-281-89398-6

9786611893989

0-7546-8779-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Disciplina

261.8/73

Soggetti

Terrorism - Religious aspects - Christianity

Violence - Religious aspects - Christianity

Church and social problems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.  127-136) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Vexed by a rocking cradle -- 2. Things fall apart : the long, bloody twentieth century -- 3. After the cold war : the end of ideology? -- 4. The public voice of resurgent religion -- 5. The rebirth of apocalyptic -- 6. Conflicting virtues : saints or heroes? -- 7. Virtues in conflict -- 8. Just war and just peacemaking.

Sommario/riassunto

In Apocalypse Now?, Duncan Forrester argues that disorders and atrocities including the Gulag, the Holocaust, 9/11, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and the Tsunami disaster have shown us that we stand in the midst of an apocalyptic age of terror with striking similarities to the time in which Christianity was born. He asks how religious ideas can play a positive role in the midst of conflicts and disasters and argues that there are huge resources in the Christian tradition that can be productively deployed for a constructive and faithful response.