“The sacrifices of war are no longer necessary. We are now free to live free of the necessity of violence and killing. War and the sacrifices of war have come to an end. War has been abolished”
“Christian non-violence imitates Jesus’s nonviolence, but it also participates in Jesus’s self-emptying into sinful humanity, his sharing in the brokenness of the world. It is this peacemaking that we enact in sharing the broken bread of the Eucharist”.
Why Christian realism requires the disavowal of war – “Christians do not disavow war because it is often so horrible, but because war, in spite of its horror – or perhaps because it is so horrible – can be so morally compelling. That is why the church does not have an alternative to war. The church is the alternative to war. When Christians lose that reality – that is, the reality of the church as an alternative to the world’s reality – we abandon the world to the unreality of war”.
A philosophical analysis of the options for understanding the cry of dereliction, interpreted within the constraints of orthodox Christian theology showing the suggestiveness of this analysis for interpretations of the doctrine of the atonement
Hunsinger calls for four steps to challenge continuing torture by the US saying that “Nothing less is at stake in the torture crisis than the soul of our nation.”
Hunsinger responds to a discussion about Torrance and Barth
