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Following is an annotated bibliography of important works in the Christian peace tradition. It is based on Ronald G. Musto, The Peace Tradition in the Catholic Church. An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987. The selections go up to the late 1980s, and will be supplemented and hyperlinked to online sellers or resources as we go along.
 

CONTENTS


PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS


INTRODUCTORY: General and Multiperiod Books on the Christian Peace Tradition  [Entries 1–60]


CHAPTER 1: Definitions of Peace and Peacemaking [Entries 61–97]

  1. The Meaning of Peacemaking 

  2. Peace in the Classical World

  3. The Meaning of eirene

  4. The Meaning of pax

  5. Peace in the Old Testament

  6. The Meaning of salom


CHAPTER 2: Ancient Traditions [Entries 98-155]

  1. The Pax Romana

  2. Roman Virtue

  3. Gentile and Jew

  4. The Meaning of Peace in the New Testament

  5. The Politics of the Gospels


CHAPTER 3: Peacemaking in Early Christianity. From Paul to Constantine
[Entries 156-253]

  1. The Christian Background

  2. Christianity and Rome

  3. Peacemaking in the Early Church

  4. Roman Religious Reaction

  5. Christians and the Roman Army

  6. Soldier Saints

CHAPTER 4: Constantine to Charlemagne, 300-800 [Entries 254-355]

  1. Introduction: Christian Empire and Imperial Church

  2. Peacemaking in the Roman West: Ambrose and Augustine

  3. Christian Peacemakers and the Barbarians: Monks and Missions

  4. Educating New Peoples for Peace: Penitentials and Canon Law

  5. Early Medieval Europe: The Continuing Tradition of Peace

CHAPTER 5: From Royal Peace to People’s Peace, 800-1100
[Entries 356-418]

  1. General Introduction

  2. Carolingian Peace

  3. Carolingian Monasticism, Missions and Antimilitarism

  4. The Martyrs of Cordova

  5. The Peace and Truce of God


CHAPTER 6: The Era of the Crusades. Peacemaking in Europe, 1100–1400 [Entries 419-509]

  1. General Introduction

  2. Background for the Crusades

  3. Chivalry and Just War: Civilizing the Soldier?

  4. Peacemaking and the New Poverty Movements

  5. Popular Peace Groups: Humiliati and Poor Catholics

  6. St. Francis and the Franciscans

  7. Peacemaking and the Third Orders

  8. The Great Alleluia of 1233

  9. The Flagellants

  10. Venturino da Bergamo

  11. The Bianchi of 1399

  12. Other Movements and Aspects


CHAPTER 7: Alternatives to the Crusades [Entries 510-574]

  1. Peacemaking in the Non-Christian World 1100–1400

  2. Conversion as an Alternative to the Crusades

  3. The Missionary Orders

  4. The Apocalyptic Tradition

  5. Ramon Lull

  6. Voices of Protest


CHAPTER 8: The Papacy As Peacemaker 1100-1500.
Arbitration, Canon Law, and the Rights of Conscience [Entries 575-634]

  1. Papal Diplomacy and Arbitration

  2. The Just War and the Rights of Conscience

  3. Liberty, Conscience and Dissent

CHAPTER 9: Renaissance Peacemakers. The Humanists [Entries 635-738]

  1. Introduction

  2. Renaissance Thought on War

  3. The Humanists as Peacemakers

  4. John Colet

  5. Thomas More

  6. Juan Luis Vives

  7. Desiderius Erasmus

CHAPTER 10: Missionary Peacemaking, 1500–1800 [Entries 739-772]
    Peace and Justice in the Americas

  1. Introduction

  2. The Religious Roots of Liberation

  3. Bartolomé de Las Casas

  4. Individual Mission Areas  


CHAPTER 11: Internationalism, 1500–1800 [Entries 793-879]

  1. General Introduction

  2. The Religious Background

  3. The Peace Tradition in Early Modern Europe

  4. The Humanist Tradition

  5. Rabelais

  6. Montaigne

  7. Pascal

  8. Francisco de Vitoria and International Law

  9. Plans for World Peace

  10. Eimeric Crucé

  11. Saint-Pierre

CHAPTER 12: The Lessons of the Twentieth Century  [Entries 880-945]

  1. Introduction

  2. Papal Peacemaking in the Twentieth Century

  3. Individual Papal  Efforts

  4. Pius XII

  5. German Catholics, the Nazis and World War II

  6. Catholic Prophets and Martyrs

  7. Individual Witness 


CHAPTER 13: European Peacemaking 1960–1990 [Entries 946-1088]

  1. Vatican II and Papal Encyclicals

  2. Conscientious Objection in Europe

  3. Catholic Peacemaking in Europe

  4. Lanzo del Vasto

  5. Danilo Dolci

  6. Northern Irish Peace People

  7. Solidarity and Poland


CHAPTER 14: The Global South and Liberation

  1. South Africa

  2. The Philippines

  3. Latin America: Theological Reflection in Latin America

  4. Individual Peacemakers

  5. Dom Helder Camara and Brazil

  6. Adolfo Perez Esquivel and the Mothers of The Plaza de Mayo

  7. Bishop Leonidas Proaño

  8. Central America

  9. Oscar Romero

  10. The Women Martyrs of El Salvador


CHAPTER 15: Catholic Peacemaking in America

  1. General Introduction

  2. American Catholics and Peace

  3. Catholic Association for International Peace (CAIP)

  4. Dorothy Day and The Catholic Worker

  5. Peter Maurin

  6. Ammon Hennacy

  7. World War II and Conscientious Objection

  8. Thomas Merton

  9. The 1960s: Vatican II and Vietnam 

  10. Conscientious Objection: Vietnam to the Present

  11. Toward a Theology of Peacemaking

  12. Pax Christi

  13. The Berrigans and Plowshares

  14. The Sanctuary Movement

  15. The Bishops and the Bomb


CHAPTER 16: Peacemaking in North America, 1600-1900

  1. General

  2. Quakers (Society of Friends)

  3. Amish, Mennonites and Others

  4. Secular Movements

  5. Conscientious Objection


CHAPTER 17: Peacemaking in North America, 1900-2008

  1. General

  2. World War I

  3. World War II

  4. 1945-Today

CHAPTER 18: Women and Peace

  1. Theory

  2. General Background and History

  3. Asia

  4. Australasia/Oceania

  5. Europe

  6. Greenham Common

  7. North America

  8. Seneca Women’s Encampment


CHAPTER 19: Reconciliation

  1. Thematic

  2. Historical

  3. Theological and Philosophical

  4. Liturgical

  5. Personal and Psychological

  6. Political and Societal

  7. Regional

  8. Africa

  9. Asia

  10. Australasia/Oceania

  11. Europe

  12. Latin America

  13. Middle East

  14. North America