By W. Michael Slattery
Jesus the Warrior? appears at simply conflict idea. issues lined comprise: the reason, reasons and purposes for struggle and Inter-Group deadly Conflict-Resolution; battle & Inter-Group deadly Violence within the Hebrew Scriptures; remedy of warfare & Non-Violence within the Christian Scriptures, Early Christian methods to battle and Peace (from Apostolic via past due Patristic interval: The Morality of conflict in contemporary Christian views in regards to the challenge of simply warfare motive; The Christian challenge of residing within the Twenty-First Century; Practitioners & versions of Christian Morality with recognize to Violence & warfare; tips to stay at the present time as a Christian with the Morality of struggle.
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A political nation. War became a way of life for them, but was in fact a way of life for the people of the Mideast region for eons. holy war in the hebrew scriptures What made the war conducted by the ancient Israelites holy, a term not used in the Hebrew scriptures, but in fact recognized by the Hebrews as such? Let us consider what made the conduct of inter-group lethal and institutionalized conflict in the form of war thought to be holy or sanctified in itself by briefly reviewing the seminal works of key thinkers and theologians focused on this subject.
War was a social institution and part of the way of living in ancient Israel, claims Hobbs. 10 Millard C. Lind, Yahweh Is a Warrior: The Theology of Warfare in Ancient Israel (Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Herald Press, 1980), pp. 49-50. Lind relates the importance of Yahweh’s deliverance of the Hebrews from the Egyptians through a military victory at the Red Sea wherein all the Egyptians pursuing the Hebrews were drowned. This powerful act of Yahweh was accomplished without the Hebrews even fighting their pursuing Egyptian forces—a clear and demonstrative act that Yahweh, not the Israelites themselves, determine the victorious outcome of battle and war.
17 and 211. Hobbs notes that the act of war was not problematic for the ancient Israelites (nor does it seem to be for contemporary Israelites either); killing another human in battle was not a matter of right and wrong, or good or evil—these are value terms unrelated to actions of nations in armed conflict. War was a social institution and part of the way of living in ancient Israel, claims Hobbs. 10 Millard C. Lind, Yahweh Is a Warrior: The Theology of Warfare in Ancient Israel (Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Herald Press, 1980), pp.