Peace Is the Way: Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation

by Walter Wink, Fellowship Of Reconciliation, Richard Deats

Overview

From Mahatma Gandhi to Dorothy Day to Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is the Way provides an indispensable collection of writings from the greatest peacemakers of our time.

The Fellowship of Reconciliation, founded in 1914, is the leading ecumenical peace organization in the United States. From the pages of its magazine, Fellowship, come these selections highlighting some of the preeminent leaders of the struggle to promote peace and nonviolent action.

These sixty original and classic essays cover the theory, practice, and spirituality of nonviolence, as well as document the struggle for racial justice and the cause of reconciliation. Together they offer a comprehensive and inspiring chronicle of the global movement for peace, ideal for students, activists, and all who wish to share in building a more just and peaceful world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570753152
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	05/01/2000
Pages:	295
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.18(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	xi
	Introduction: The Rebel Passion: Eighty-five Years of the Fellowship of Reconciliation	xv
Part 1	The Vision of Peace
1	Nonviolence--The Greatest Force	2
2	Pacifism and Class War	4
3	Has Pacifism Become Impossible?	8
4	The Relevance of an Impossible Ideal	17
5	The Pacifist Way of Life	30
6	A Post-liberal Pacifism	37
7	Blessed Are the Meek The Roots of Christian Nonviolence	41
8	Nonviolence and Feminism	46
9	The Pacifist Vision	49
10	How Nonviolence Works	54
Part 2	Witnesses for Peace
11	The Way of Peace	60
12	My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence	64
13	Martin Buber and the Covenant of Peace	72
14	The Principle Is the Unity of Life	76
15	An Aspiration, Not an Achievement	82
16	Thomas Merton: A Friend Remembered	89
17	Connecting the Altar to the Pentagon	93
18	Adolfo Perez Esquivel: Behind the Man and the Prize	98
19	Remembering Dorothy Day	104
20	Peace Pilgrim	109
21	The Experiments of Gandhi: Nonviolence in the Nuclear Age	112
Part 3	Spirit of Peace
22	Hasidism and the Love of Enemies	118
23	Social Action and the Need for Prayer	124
24	Envisioning the Peaceable Kingdom	129
25	Taking Heart: Spiritual Exercises from Social Activists	135
26	Saying No to Death	143
27	Civil Disobedience as Prayer	149
28	Being Peace	153
29	Gandhi and the Ancient Wisdom of Nonviolence	159
Part 4	Interracial Justice
30	The Will to Segregation	164
31	The Coming Revolt against Jim Crow	170
32	Walk for Freedom	175
33	Facing the Challenge of a New Age	178
34	Behind the Sit-ins	187
35	We Must Keep Going: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Future of America	193
36	Growing up Black	204
5	Nonviolence in Action
37	Disarmament and Defense	210
38	How to Stop Aggressors	216
39	The Stages of Nonviolence	218
40	On Nonviolent Revolution	224
41	"People Are Willing to Sacrifice Themselves ..."	227
42	Disregarded History The Power of Nonviolent Action	231
43	Awakening from a Dream of Kings and Wizards	236
44	The Violence in Ourselves	240
45	Justice and Military Madness	244
46	When Prayer and Revolution Become People Power	248
47	Shine on in Montana	255
Part 6	The Path of Reconciliation
48	Daring to Be Human	258
49	Tale from Vienna	260
50	The Prefet's Dirty Job	262
51	We Are All Part of One Another	265
52	The Road to Transformation	269
53	Baghdad after the War	273
54	God Makes the Crooked Places Straight	278
	Conclusion
55	The Global Spread of Active Nonviolence	283