Theology for a Nuclear Age
Author | : Gordon D. Kaufman |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Nuclear warfare |
ISBN | : 9780719017933 |
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Author | : Gordon D. Kaufman |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Nuclear warfare |
ISBN | : 9780719017933 |
Author | : Sallie McFague |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781451418019 |
In this award-winning text, theologian Sallie McFague challenges Christians' usual speech about God as a kind of monarch. She probes instead three other possible metaphors for God as mother, lover, and friend.
Author | : Sallie McFague |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : God |
ISBN | : 9780334010395 |
Author | : Ira Chernus |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1989-08-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791498921 |
Exploring the symbolic meanings of the Bomb, this book excavates the "depth dimension" of the nuclear age. Rather than adding to the many ethical commentaries asking whether or not there should be nuclear weapons, the authors ask why there are nuclear weapons and a continuing arms race. They also address the kinds of symbolic changes that must occur in order to reverse the build-up of nuclear weapons. The authors approach these questions from the perspective of academic research, not from particular faith commitments, asking the reader to envision different human responses to this technology, human stances that can be illuminated by the creative insight of religious studies.
Author | : Scott Eastham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James W. Douglass |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2006-04-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 159752610X |
We live in that final time which offers humans the clearest choice in history: the kingdom or the holocaust, Jim Douglass writes. Either end is a lightning east to west: the nuclear holocaust a lightning fire, the kingdom of Reality a lightning spirit. We will choose lightning east to west today as either nuclear fire or the kingdom of God, as either despair and annihilation or transformation through nonviolence. If we look to Jesus and Gandhi, and what they point to, we can hope to choose the lightning fire of nonviolence.
Author | : Kristen Tobey |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0271078286 |
In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading security guards, these activists pounded on missile nose cones with hammers and then covered the cones in their own blood. This act of nonviolent resistance was their answer to calls for prophetic witness in the Old Testament: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not take up sword against nation; they shall never again know war.” Plowshares explores the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group’s use of performance to achieve its goals. It looks at the group’s acts of civil disobedience, such as that undertaken at the GE plant in 1980, and the Plowshares’ behavior at the legal trials that result from these protests. Interpreting the Bible as a mandate to enact God’s kingdom through political resistance, the Plowshares work toward “symbolic disarmament,” with the aim of eradicating nuclear weapons. Plowshares activists continue to carry out such “divine obediences” against facilities where equipment used in the production or deployment of nuclear weapons is manufactured or stored. Whether one agrees or disagrees with their actions, this volume helps us better understand their motivations, logic, identity, and ultimate goal.
Author | : James L. Nolan |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2020-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674248635 |
An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project. After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather’s role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety and evacuation plans for the Trinity test at Alamogordo, escorted the “Little Boy” bomb from Los Alamos to the Pacific Islands, and was one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Participation on the project challenged Dr. Nolan’s instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war and their oaths to protect life. Atomic Doctors follows these physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. Called upon both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons. Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and complicity. A vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter in atomic history, Atomic Doctors is a profound meditation on the moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times.
Author | : John A. Bernbaum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Ira Chernus |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1991-02-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791498913 |
This book builds on Robert Jay Lifton's theory of psychic numbing, and takes madness as a guiding metaphor. It shows that public perceptions of the Bomb are a kaleidoscope of ever-changing ideas and images. Recent changes in public awareness only signal new symptoms of this public madness, symptoms unwittingly fostered by the antinuclear movement. Since the newest nuclear images follow the same psychological pattern as their predecessors, they are likely to lead us deeper into nuclear madness. Chernus offers new interpretations of four major theorists int the psychology of religion—Paul Tillich, R.D. Laing, Mircea Eliade, and James Hillman—to trace the roots of nuclear madness back to the onset of modernity, when the West gained technological mastery at the price of losing religious imagination and ontological security. The author develops an interpretation of Lifton's own thought as an ontological and religious psychology. Drawing on the work of Eliade and Hillman, he goes on to suggest that madness reflects a repressed desire to transform life by opening up the floodgates of imagination. A conscious cultivation of the play of imagination can lead the way through madness to sanity and peace. But, imagination can only respond to the nuclear threat if it is acted out in a new brand of peace activism that blends pragmatic politics with psychological and religious transformation.