Recent decades have seen a steady trend in Roman Catholic teaching toward a commitment to active nonviolence that could qualify the church as a “peace church.” As a moral theologian specializing in social ethics, Schlabach explores how this trend in Catholic social teaching will need to take shape if Catholics are to follow through. Globalization,…
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A Pilgrim People:
Exiles all: Going “all in” on immigration reform
Bearings Online 10 August 2017 You know the headlines: Globalization. Jobs lost, jobs gained. Immigrants. Muslims. Nationalist resurgence both in the United States and other countries. Calls to “build that wall.” Charges of xenophobia. Outsourcing that hurts “us” and sweatshops that hurt “them.” The internet, creating both links between people and echo chambers for the…
Idea map for A Pilgrim People: Becoming a Catholic Peace Church
This is the “idea map” that got me started on the book project that has occupied my sabbatical this year. Inevitably the book has undergone some reshaping, and probably will until the end. But conceptually, this still makes the connections.
Christian peace theology:
internal critique and interfaith dialogue
On March 1 I spoke at two break-out sessions on the topic of “Christian Peace Theology: Internal Critique and Interfaith Dialogue” at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, Faith and Peace Day, in Minneapolis. Here’s what I said I would do: This session will survey theological debates over war and violence within the Christian tradition in…
Sharing Peace:
Mennonites and Catholics in Conversation
Sharing Peace brings together leading Mennonite and Catholic theologians and ecclesial leaders to reflect on the recent, first-ever international dialogue between the Mennonite World Conference and the Vatican. The search for a shared reading of history, theology of the church and its sacraments or ordinances, and understandings of Christ’s call to be peacemakers are its most prominent themes.
Meeting in exile
Historic peace churches and the emerging peace church catholic Journal of Religion, Conflict and Peace Volume 1. Issue 1, Fall 2007. First presented as a lecture for Presentation Sisters’ Peace Studies Forum, 23 January 2004, Fargo ND. For the three “historic peace church” colleges of Indiana to join together in the Plowshares Peace Studies Collaborative and its…