Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Religion, peace and justice
- Attitudes to war
- Just War Teory
- PROPER AUTHORITY
- JUST CAUSE
- RIGHT INTENTION
- LAST RESORT
- PROPORTIONALITY
- WIN POSSIBLE
- JUST METHOD
- Concientious objectors
- People
who refuse
based on
their
conscience
to fight in a
war.
- Quotes
- “ Prepare for
war! Rouse the
warriors! Let all
the fighting
men drawn
near and
attack.”
- “ The Lord is a warrior.”
- Violence and pacifism
- Attitudes to the use of violence
- "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did
not come to bring peace, but a sword."
- Attitudes towards pacifism
- “Love your
enemies, and pray
for those who
persecute you.”
- “Do not take revenge on someone who wrongs
you. If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.”
- Turn from evil and do
good, seek peace and
pursue it.
- “Blessed are
the
peacemakers”
- Quakers
- Crime and punishment
- Concept of justice
- Being treated fairly.
- Aims of punishment
- Retribution
- Reformation
- Protection
- Detterence
- Attitudes towards capital punishment
- “Anyone who attacks his father or
mother must be out to death.”
- “You shall not commit murder.”
- “Love your enemies
and pray for those who
persecute you.”
- Responses to the treatment of criminals
- "If anyone injures his neighbour, whatever
he has done must be done to him: fracture
for fracture, eye for an eye, tooth for tooth.
As he has injured, so he is to be injured".
- If any one of you is without
sin, let him be the first to
throw a stone at her.
- Social Injustice
- Concept of
social justice
and injustice
- Social Justice
- A society
where
everyone
is
treated
fairly.
- Social Injustice
- It is the breaking
of one or all of the
25 Human Rights
- Beliefs about social injustice
- Liberation Theology
- Liberation theology says
that Christians should unite
with the poor and
oppressed, and speak out
against injustice and abuses
of human rights.
- All humans are created
in the image of God, and
everyone has an eternal
destiny (Heaven,
salvation). All humans
must be respected
because God made and
loves them equally.
- “ Do to others what
you would want them
to do to you.”
- Responses to social injustice
- Protests