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WAR & PEACE

The question of war and peace is concerned (really more the question of war), we are immediately confronted with the specter of theodicy: can God make innocent human beings suffer? And if He cannot, since He is just. how does such a thing nevertheless happen. given that He, God , is not only supposed to he just, but also to be almighty?…

About the Author

Thomas Mooren, OFM Cap was born in 1947 in Dortmund-Kurl, Germany. He is professor of missiology, World Religions and Oriental Languages at Saint paul University in Ottawa, Canada. He is an active member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He worked in Indonesia and India for many years, and very recently he taught at maryhil I School of Theology in Quezon City, Philippines. He is the author of on the Border — the Otherness of God and the Multiplicity of Religions ( Frankfurt / Bern/ New York: Peter Lang, 1994); Purusa – Treading the Razor’s Edge Toward Selfhood. The Self and Self-Experience in Islamic and Hindu Mysticism(Delhi: Media House, 1997); Making the Earth a Human Dwelling Place. Essays in the Philosophy and Anthropology of Culture and Religion (Wurzburg: Echter Verlag / Altenberge:Oros Verlag,2000); I Do Not Adore What You Adore! Theology and Philosophy in Islam (Delhi: Media House, 2001); and other numerous studies In English, German and French.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION

WAR AND PEACE IN MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS

CHAPTER ONE

THE MILITARIZATION OF CHRISTIANITY

CHAPTER TWO

CHOP OFF THE PUTRID FLESH-THE CASE OF HERESY

CHAPTER THREE

JUSTICE AND DIVINE LAW
CHAPTER FOUR

SEPTEMBER 11TH 2001 AND THE FUTURE OF MONOTHEISTIC RELIGION

CHAPTER FIVE

DEMOCRACY AND FUNDAMENTALISM

CHAPTER SIX

UNITY IN DIVERSITY

CHAPTER SEVEN INTER RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE, THE WEST AND THE “AGE OF REPENTANCE”