History Faculty Publications

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

Comments

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Publisher

The Christian Century

Volume

127

Issue

1

Place of Publication

Chicago, IL


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