The Pacifist Option The Moral Argument

In this path-breaking study, Fr. Alexander Webster convincingly demonstrates that a distinctive pacifist trajectory, characterized by the moral virtues of non-violence, nonresistance, voluntary kenotic suffering, and universal forgiveness, has endured through two millennia of Eastern Orthodox history in unbroken continuity with the ancient Church.

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Foreword
Preface
Introduction: A World Still Split Apart	p. 1
Contexts and Concepts
Sources and Theological Foundations	p. 25
Typologies for Orthodox Social Ethics	p. 57
Pacifism in Western Ethics	p. 91
The Orthodox Pacifist Trajectory
The Scriptual Witness	p. 123
Patristic Writings on War and Peace	p. 143
The Canonical "Dual Standard"	p. 165
Exceptional Saints	p. 183
Devotional Literature: Mystico-Ascetic Spirituality	p. 197
Modern Russian Kenoticism	p. 217
Conclusion: The Pacifist Option	p. 243
Notes	p. 267
Bibliography	p. 325
Index of Names	p. 345
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The Pacifist Option The Moral Argument Against War in Eastern Orthodox Theology

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