Validating Violence - Violating Faith?: Religion, Scripture and Violence »

William Emilsen lectures in Church History and World Religions at the United Theological College, Sydney.

John Squires is senior lecturer in Biblical Studies at the United Theological College, Sydney. He is the author of The Plan of God in Luke-Acts and Cambridge Companion to the Gospels.

Scholars from Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions look at violence in the scriptures.

Foreword vii

List of Contributors ix

Introduction xiii

Part 1 Approaching the Scriptures

1 Pleasure and Grief, in Violence Jione Havea 3

2 Words of Death: Scriptures and Violence in Judaism, Christianity and Islam Christopher D Stanley 17

3 Words of Life: Scriptures and Non-violence in Judaism, Christianity and Islam Christopher D Stanley 39

Part 2 Case Studies from Scripture: Dealing with Violence

4 Violent Discipleship in the Gospel Traditions Elizabeth Raine John T Squires 59

5 From Violence and War to Shalom in the Hebrew Bible Anastasia Boniface-Malle 77

6 Violating Faith via Eschatological Violence: Reviewing Matthew's Eschatology David Neville 95

7 Peace and Military Engagement in the Qur'an and in the Actions of the Prophet Muhammad Mehmet Ozalp 111

8 Gandhi, Scripture and Non-violence William W Emilsen 127

Part 3 Violence in History and Theology

9 Unpicking Retribution's Knots: Churches as Cultures for Peace Heather Thomson 143

10 The Location of God, Theories of the Atonement and 'Redemptive' Violence Chris Budden 155

11 Jews and Violence Rachael Kohn 173

12 Religion and Violence: a Macrohistorical Perspective Garry W Trompf 187

Conclusion 219

Index of Names 225

Index of Scriptural References 229