Peacebuilding

by Schreiter, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9781570758935
• ISBN10: 157075893X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-31
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

In this groundbreaking volume, leading Catholic theologians, scholar-practitioners, and ethicists take up the challenge of developing a conceptually coherent, theologically accurate, spiritually enlivening, and practically effective approach to Catholic peacebuilding that can complement the rich Catholic teaching on the ethics of war.

Author Biography

Robert J. Schreiter, C.PP.S., is Bernardin Center Vatican II Professor of Theology at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. R. Scott Appleby is John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Gerard F. Powers is Director of Catholic Peacebuilding Studies at the Kroc Institute.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. x
Abbreviations and Acronyms	p. xiii
Catholic Engagement with other Actors
The Political Community
Peacebuilding and Catholicism: Affinities, Convergences, Possibilities	p. 3
The Long Journey Back to Humanity: Catholic Peacebuilding with Armed Actors	p. 23
What Kind of Peace Do We Seek?: Emerging Norms of Peacebuilding in Key Political Institutions	p. 56
Reconciliation: A Catholic Ethic for Peacebuilding in the Political Order	p. 92
Catholic Relief Services: Catholic Peacebuilding in Practice	p. 125
Peacebuilding and Its Challenging Partners: Justice, Human Rights, Development, and Solidarity	p. 155
Pursuing Truth, Reconciliation, and Human Dignity in South Africa: Lessons for Catholic Peacebuilding	p. 190
Religion and Culture
The Catholic Social Imaginary and Peacebuilding: Ritual, Sacrament, and Spirituality	p. 221
Catholic Approaches to Interreligious Peacebuilding: Lessons from Indonesia's ôSad Yearsö	p. 240
The Growing Edge of Catholic Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding and Catholic Social Teaching	p. 265
A Theology for Peacebuilding	p. 300
Peacebuilding and Reconciliation: Interreligious Dialogue and Catholic Spirituality	p. 332
A Catholic Theology of Interreligious Dialogue	p. 335
A Practical Theology of Healing, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation	p. 366
Stories of Solidarity: The Challenges of Catholic Peacebuilding	p. 398
Future Directions in Catholic Peacebuilding	p. 421
Biographies	p. 449
Index	p. 453
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