History Faculty Publications
Title
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
1-12-2010
Publication Source
The Christian Century
Abstract
Reviews of two books:
- Patricia Applebaum, Kingdom to Commune: Protestant Pacifist Culture between World War I and the Vietnam Era.
- Joseph Kosek, Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy.
The Enlightenment has bequeathed us — Americans more than anyone else — the conviction that history is a story of progress. Such a notion seems ludicrous when one considers the violence of the contemporary world. As the British historian Eric Hobsbawm observes in his brilliant work The Age of Extremes, the 20th century "was without doubt the most murderous century of which we have record, both by the scale, frequency and length of the warfare which filled it ... but also by the unparalleled scale of the human catastrophes it produced, from the greatest famines in history to systematic genocides."
Inclusive pages
36-38
ISBN/ISSN
0009-5281
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
Copyright © 2010, Christian Century. From From the Jan. 12, 2010, issue of The Christian Century.
Publisher
The Christian Century
Volume
127
Issue
1
Place of Publication
Chicago, IL
eCommons Citation
Trollinger, William Vance, "Prescient Pacifists" (2010). History Faculty Publications. 29.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/hst_fac_pub/29
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