Based on the author's dissertation (Ph. D.--Marquette University). Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-219) and index.
Contents:
Mohandas Gandhi : a Hindu and more. Gandhi's beliefs -- The political impact of Gandhi's Hinduism -- Gandhi's transformation of traditional Hindu concepts -- Gandhian satyagraha. Understanding Gandhian satyagraha -- The import, significance, and consequences of satyagraha -- Selected Christian theologians who have embraced nonviolence. C.F. Andrews : a Christina satyagahi -- John Howard Yoder : disciple of the nonresistant Jesus -- Bernard Hàˆring : Peritus of peace -- Walter Wink : Jesus' third way -- The multiple versions of salvation theologies. Salvation, social sin, and violence -- The multiple models of salvation in sacred scripture -- Four soteriologies after the New Testament -- The reformers -- A critique of Anselm's soteriology -- Implications for a soteriology of salvation -- Criteria for a contemporary spirituality -- Rethinking Christian salvation in the light of Gandhi's satyagraha. Human responsibility for history -- Jesus' life, praxis, and teaching as the ultimate criterion -- Why Christ died and the meaning of "carrying the cross" -- That from which we are saved -- The priority of praxis -- The way of nonviolence -- The importance of the church for salvation.
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