Celebrating Peace

Coming in the wake of momentous changes in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, Germany and the movement for democracy in China, Celebrating Peace presents original essays by thinkers and writers to provide reflections on peace that go beyond current events and point towards extending and building peace. This volume intends not only to celebrate peace but to contribute to an understanding of it through philosophical, theological and literary explorations. Contributors include: Part I: Just War, Perpetual Peace, and the Nation-State John J. Gilligan, John H. Yoder, Sissela Bok, and Stephen Toulmin Part II: Christian Conceptions of Peace Trutz Rendtorff, Jurgen Moltmann, and Paul S. Minear Part II: Hindu and Buddhist Views of Peace Gerlad J. Larson, Ninian Smart, and Bhukhu Parek Part IV: Making Peace: Prophecy, protest and poetry Daniel Berrigan, S.J., and Denise Levertov