The Peace We Can’t Reach
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The Peace We Can’t Reach

Confronting Narratives That Deny Our Conditions, Jam Our Spiritual Frequencies, and Defile Shalom

  1. 270 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Peace We Can’t Reach

Confronting Narratives That Deny Our Conditions, Jam Our Spiritual Frequencies, and Defile Shalom

About this book

Propelled by George Floyd's murder in her hometown of Minneapolis, Meg Gorzycki addresses the question of why peace is difficult to cultivate and sustain, and finds that America has always had a love-hate relationship with peace. The Peace We Can't Reach posits that peace is more than the absence of war and aggression, and in its most profound sense is shalom, the commitment to live for the well-being of all so that compassion and justice might prevail. Exploring shalom from the perspective of war, police brutality, mass shootings, and economic injustice, this book offers evidence that neither democracy nor Christianity as Americans have known them are capable of achieving peace. It asserts that the keys to peace are personal and social narratives that give people a sense of identity and their highest purpose, and concludes that gaining control over these narratives is vital to shalom.

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Information

Publisher
Resource Publications
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781666783438
9781666783445
eBook ISBN
9781666783452
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Ethics & Religion

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Chapter 1: Introduction
  4. Chapter 2: Peace
  5. Chapter 3: Spiritual Narratives and Identity
  6. Chapter 4: The Bloody Hell We Love
  7. Chapter 5: Justifying The Bloody Deed
  8. Chapter 6: Rogue Incarnations of the Just War Theory
  9. Chapter 7: The Idolatry of Wealth
  10. Chapter 8: The Reluctant Republic
  11. Chapter 9: Mister Rogers vs. Mister America
  12. Chapter 10: Old Colonial Shoes
  13. Chapter 11: Pathology by Any Other Name
  14. Chapter 12: God in the Absence of Justice
  15. Chapter 13: Mind-Boggling Denial
  16. Chapter 14: The Land of Nod
  17. Chapter 15: Thoughts in Summary
  18. Bibliography

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