Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Pacifism


We are fated to kill and be killed because we know no other way to live, but through the forgiveness made possible by the cross of Jesus we are no longer condemned to kill. A people have been created who refuse to resort to the sword, that they and those they love might survive. They seek not to survive, but to live in the light of Christ’s resurrection. The sacrifices of war are no longer necessary. We can now live free of the necessity of violence and killing. War and the sacrifices of war have come to an end. War has been abolished.


Hauerwas' book, Hannah's Child, uses a good number of pages on the subject of his pacifism, and how it has affected his life and thinking. 

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