Waging peace : a handbook for the struggle to abolish nuclear weapons /
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San Francisco :
Harper & Row,
©1982.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A time to wage peace / Jim Wallis
- New abolitionist covenant
- pt. 1. Our perilous situation: the nuclear arms race and its consequences. Ultimate terrorism: the real meaning of nuclear strategies / Richard Barnet
- Deadly race: a look at U.S.-USSR nuclear capabilities and intentions / Robert Aldridge
- Spreading madness: the proliferation of nuclear weapons / Sidney Lens
- We are all hostages: questions for thought and discussion
- Hysteria is coming! Hysteria is coming! Producing the born-again Cold War / William Greider
- Lies clearer than truth: a look at the Russian threat ; Two bumbling giants: the superpowers' outdated policies in a nuclear world / Richard Barnet
- Failure of arms control: why government efforts at arms control have failed / Robert Johansen
- The big lie of the arms race: questions for thought and discussion
- Medical consequences of nuclear war: a case for prevention / Howard Hiatt
- Day the bomb hit: a Hiroshima A-bomb survivor remembers / Akihiro Takahashi
- Family sees the light, again and again: reflections of a nuclear weapons test victim / Elizabeth Wright
- High cost of insecurity: social costs and the arms race / Ruth Leger Sivard
- Military albatross: how arms spending is destroying the economy / Lloyd Dumas
- Who are the victims? Questions for thought and discussion
- pt. 2. Responses of faith: a biblical, historical, and theological approach. Nuclear principalities: a biblical view of the arms race / William Stringfellow
- Theological reflection on nuclear developments: the limits of science, technology, and power / Jacques Ellul
- What are our limits? Questions for thought and discussion
- Rediscovering our heritage: the pacifism of the early church / Alan Kreider
- Living the disarmed life: Christ's strategy for peace / John Howard Yoder
- Reconciling our enemies: a biblical study on nonviolence / Ronald Sider
- Will Christians push the nuclear button? Questions for thought and discussion
- Who shall suffer injury at our hands? Historical Christian responses to war and peace / E. Glenn Hinson
- Biblical call to nuclear non-cooperation: why the church must say no to nuclear weapons / Helmut Gollwitzer
- Who must take responsibility? Questions for thought and discussion
- Central murder: Jesus' crucifixion and the nuclear holocaust / Dale Aukerman
- Being with the Lamb: a sermon / Richard Mouw
- Christ as victim and victor: questions for thought and discussion
- My people, I am your security: a nuclear prophecy
- Resting on Golgotha's cross: security in a nuclear world / Gordon Cosby
- Astonishing hope: good news in a time of despair / James Forest
- What do we have to give our children? Questions for thought and discussion
- pt. 3. Faith at work: Christians rise to the nuclear challenge. Work of prayer: the heart of Christian witness / Jim Wallis
- Letting go of all things: prayer as action / Henri Nouwen
- To whom do we belong? Questions for thought and discussion
- Like street preaching in downtown Rome: witnessing at nuclear weapons facilities / Mernie King
- Take the message to Jerusalem: declaring the gospel of peace in the churches / John Stoner
- Freezing the arms race: the first step toward disarmament / Danny Collum
- Peace by peace: a model for peace ministry in the local churches / Mernie King
- Making peace: questions for thought and discussion
- Moral equivalent of disarmament: a call for church war tax resistance / John Stoner
- Obligation of conscience / Raymond Hunthausen
- Christ is risen from nuclear holocaust / James Douglass
- Whom do we obey? Questions for thought and discussion
- Epilogue: A dream / Jim Wallis
- A covenant and a dream: Questions for thought and discussion.