Breaking Bread: Peace and War
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells
The argument of this chapter is: “War is counter-liturgy to the worship of God. War os a sacrifice designed to take away sin. Except it does not take away sin. War is thus, for Christians a parody of the cross and a parody of the Eucharist. It is is a technology and an idol that rivals an obscures the grace of salvation.”
Great sermon by Sam Wells on war follows.
War as Sacrifice. How the attitude about war has changed over the years. In WWI, soldiers were viewed as imitating Christ in his sacrifice. “Such sentiments are as understandable as they are problematic.”
The Non-Liturgical Portrayal of War. One author defines three types of Christian response to war: pacifism, just war, and crusade. The authors show how each of this relate to Christian liturgy
War and the Broken Body. “Thus to say there is nothing that one may kill for is not to say there is nothing to die for. Christians continue to die for their faith; but they should cease to kill for their faith, because God in Christ died for their salvation rather than kill for it.” Jesus offers 7 alternatives to war in Luke 6:27-31 when he amplifies his statement “love you enemies."