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