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Gerald W. Schlabach is professor of theology and former chair of justice and peace studies at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. He holds a PhD in theology and ethics from the University of Notre Dame. During much of the 1980s he worked in Central America on church-related peace and justice mostra'n més assignments. Schlabach is co-founder of Bridgefolk, a movement for grassroots dialogue and unity between Mennonites and Roman Catholics. He is active in the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, which is engaged in a sustained conversation with the Vatican in favor of a "just peace" framework for Catholic teaching and practice. His books include Just Policing, Not War: An Alternative Response to World Violence and Sharing Peace: Mennonites and Catholics in Conversation, both from Liturgical Press. mostra'n menys

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The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics (2004) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions160 exemplars
The Wisdom of the Cross: Essays in Honor of John Howard Yoder (1999) — Col·laborador — 38 exemplars

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At Peace and Unafraid explores principles and practices to guide Christians in
living out Jesus's way of nonviolent love in societies that often do not share
their convictions.
 
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collectionmcc | Mar 6, 2018 |
An interesting book by Gerald W. Schlabach, the founder of "Bridgefolk" an organization of Catholics and Mennonites who hope to learn from one another's traditions.

The thrust of the book is that what he sees as the Catholic tradition of stable community, is much needed by those in the Protestant tradition. He holds the so-called "Protestant Principle" of a Church always in need of reform is indeed true, but that Protestant history shows that it is destructive of community (and Church) if held as an absolute, unbalanced by the Catholic understanding of community, stability and tradition.

A Benedictine Oblate, Schlabach puts forward the Benedictine tradition's vow of stability as a model of the Catholic approach, and notes the post-Vatican II tendency for vigorous theological debate WITHIN the Church as a model for our Protestant Brothers and Sisters. By contrast he sees the Second Vatican Council as an example of the Church's acceptance of the Protestant principle that the Church is in constant need of reform.

I must say that his models for "loyal dissent" within the Catholic tradition (Joan Chittister anyone?) didn't give this reader a clear sense that Schlabach has fully grasped the Catholic principle of authoritative magisterial teaching. It's one thing to debate theological issues before the Church has spoken authoritatively, it's another after. His contemporary authorities seem limited to the writers of Commonweal and America, certainly an interesting bunch, but hardly representative of the breadth of the tradition he affirms so strongly. Stanley Hauerwas and Alasdair Macintyre are two of his more academic influences.

Originally a Mennonite, the author has entered the Roman Catholic Church while maintaining a connection with his original Mennonite Church, as well as with Bridgefolk. Definitely worth a read, but not the whole story in my view.
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johnredmond | Apr 4, 2011 |
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Peace and Justice Series #12
 
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