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The Iraqi biataxy.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: Michael O'Connor's thoughtful essay on Iraq (May 2007) captured the essence of the current debate. The essential dilemma is that, while it is easy to declare war, who will conclude a peace where there is none to be found? Iraq is just a killing floor and even the artillery corps could not lend any respectability to it. Every night on television, just one long unredemptive "snuff movie" on an endless grainy loop. Indo-China historian Doug Pike once argued the sense that the North Vietnamese were the most praetorian society on earth. The transposed, inverted and skewed matrices of the Iraq insurgency would embarrass him. As in Vietnam, the coalition entered Iraq with honourable intentions. Nothing was lost in execution as daily casualty counts persistently remind us.
Let me extend Pike's analogy one step ...
- How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Recovering the African Seedbed of Western...
- Magazine article from: Church History Barnes, Andrew December 1, 2008 700+ words
...Recovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity. By Thomas C. Oden. Downers Grove...in pre-Islamic Africa. Modern Western Christianity evolved from African "seeds...case for the African origins of Western Christianity. The second part is a biting critique...
- Western Christianity
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture Sack, Daniel January 1, 2003 700+ words
Western Christianity Christianity traces its origins to the life and preaching of...encountered other cultures and belief systems. In the process, Western Christianity has assimilated its early practices, which were shaped by first...
- The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity: 200-1336.
- Magazine article from: Theological Studies Hayes, Zachary June 1, 1996 700+ words
...primary concern is with the understanding of the body in Western Christianity as this is reflected in some traditional ways of dealing...widespread view that Greek dualism has effectively won out in Western Christianity and argues instead that the conviction that the self...
- The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336.
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Pasewark, Kyle A. April 10, 1996 700+ words
The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336. By Caroline Walker Bynum. Columbia...demonstrated: "Despite its suspicion of flesh and lust, Western Christianity did not hate or discount the body. Indeed, person...
- Love: A Brief History through Western Christianity.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2008 700+ words
9780631235996 Love; a brief history through Western Christianity. Lindberg, Carter. Blackwell Publishing 2008 195 pages $22.00 Paperback Blackwell brief histories of religion series BV4639...
- How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of...
- Magazine article from: International Bulletin of Missionary Research Hanciles, Jehu J. October 1, 2008 700+ words
How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity. By Thomas C. Oden. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2007. Pp. 204. $19. The Blessing of Africa: The Bible...
- The fate of ancient Greek natural philosophy in the middle ages: Islam and...
- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Grant, Edward March 1, 2008 700+ words
...from Arabic to Greek and from Latin to Arabic and Greek--and therefore no significant interactions between Western Christianity and Islam. But if there were no mutual interactions in science and natural philosophy between Latin Christianity...
- Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western...
- Magazine article from: International Bulletin of Missionary Research January 1, 2006 700+ words
The Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity will hold its 2006 meeting June 29 to July 1 at the University of Edinburgh. Speakers will discuss the theme "Sight, Sound...