Peace and War: A Biblical and Theological Bibliography

Wilma Ann Bailey, “You Shall Not Kill” Or “You Shall Not Murder”? The Assault on a Biblical Text (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2005).

Michael Battle, Blessed Are the Peacemakers: A Christian Spirituality of Nonviolence (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2004).

Robert W. Brimlow, What About Hitler: Wrestling With Jesus’ Call to Nonviolence in an Evil World (Grand Rapids: Brazo Press, 2006).

Lisa Sowle Cahill, Love Your Enemies: Discipleship, Pacifism and the Just War Theory (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994).

J. Daryl Charles, Between Pacifism and Jihad: Just War and Christian Tradition (Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2005).

Kenneth Chase and Alan Jacobs, ed., Must Christianity Be Violent? Reflections on History, Practice and Theology (Grand Rapids: Brazo Press, 2003).

John J. Collins, Does the Bible Justify Violence? (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004).

John Dear, The God of Peace: Toward a Theology of Nonviolence (Maryknoll: Orbis Press).

Stanley Hauerwas, Against the Nations: War and Survival in a Liberal Society (Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1985).

Stanley Hauerwas, The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983).

Stanley Hauerwas, Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence (Grand Rapids: Brazo Press, 2004).

Millard C. Lind, Yahweh Is A Warrior: The Theology of Warfare in Ancient Israel (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1980).

Ulrich Mauser, The Gospel of Peace: A Scriptural Message for Today’s World (Louisville: Westminster, 1992).

Daniel C. Maguire, The Horrors We Bless: Rethinking the Just-War Legacy (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007).

Oliver O’Donovan, The Just War Revised (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2003).

John D. Roth, Choosing Against War: A Christian View: A Love Stronger Than Our Fears (Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2002).

Glen H. Stassen, Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace (Louisville: Westminister/John Knox Press, 1992).

Willard M. Swartley, The Covenant of Peace: The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006).

___________, ed. The Love of Enemy and Nonretaliation in the New Testament (Louisville: Westminister/ John Knox Press, 1992).

Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996).

Craig M. Watts, Disciple of Peace: Alexander Campbell on Pacifism, Violence and the State (Indianapolis: Doulos Christou Press, 2005).

John A. Wood, Perspectives on War in the Bible (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1998).

John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus: Vicit Agnus Noster, 2nd ed (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994).

John Howard Yoder, The Original Revolution: Essays in Christian Pacifism (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2003).

John Howard Yoder, What Would You Do? A Serious Answer to a Standard Question, expanded ed, (Scottdale, PA, 1992).

John Howard Yoder, When War is Unjust: Being Honest in Just War Thinking, revised ed. (Maryknoll: Orbis Press, 1996).