Library hosts author event with David Cramer
Published: March 23, 2022
The bg真人 campus community gathered in the library on March 10, 2022, for snacks and coffee to celebrate the release of A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence with co-author David C. Cramer, PhD, Managing Editor of the Institute of Mennonite Studies, the research and publishing wing of bg真人. Cramer provided introductory remarks and then signed copies for attendees.
In the book, Cramer and co-author , PhD, present eight streams of Christian nonviolence, featuring lived examples of each stream. This diverse picture of Christian nonviolence moves the academic community beyond an assumption that all Christian nonviolence can be pigeonholed as a single, unified position. It also identifies forms of violence that Christian pacifists have often overlooked in the past, such as sexualized violence and the 鈥渟low violence鈥� of climate change.
The bg真人 Bookstore sold out of its first shipment of copies after the event; more copies are on their way and can be purchased from the .
鈥� Karl Stutzman, MLS, Director of Library Services
A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence: Key Thinkers, Activists, and Movements for the Gospel of Peace (Baker Academic, 2022)
By David C. Cramer and Myles Werntz
Christian nonviolence is not a settled position but a vibrant and living tradition that includes mystics, feminists, liberation theologians, civil rights activists, Niebuhrian realists and more. This book offers a concise introduction to the variety of recent movements within the broad stream of Christian nonviolence.
Since the 1980s, there has been an explosion of writings on Christian nonviolence, yet no work exists to make sense of this plurality or to orient newcomers to the resources available to think faithfully and critically through what it means to be a proponent of Christian nonviolence. This book provides such an introduction for professors, students, scholars and lay readers. The authors explore the myriad biblical, theological and practical dimensions of Christian nonviolence as represented by a variety of 20th- and 21st-century thinkers and movements, including previously underrepresented voices. They invite readers to explore the tradition and to discover how they might live out the gospel in our modern world.
Available in paperback and e-book formats.
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