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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dear, John, 1959 Disarming the heart : toward a vow of nonviolence / John Dear. Rev. ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8361-3652-7 (alk. paper) 1. Dear, John, 1959. 2. NonviolenceReligious aspects Christianity. I. Title. BT736.6.D42 1993 93-28739 241'.697dc20 CIP
The paper used in this publication is recycled and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
The Bible text is from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, and is used by permission.
DISARMING THE HEART Copyright 1993 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683 Published simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press, Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6H7. All rights reserved First published by Paulist Press, 1987. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 93-28739 International Standard Book Number: 0-8361-3652-7 Printed in the United States of America Book and cover design by Gwen M. Stamm
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For my brothers, David, Brian, and Stephen; For my sisters, Ita, Maura, Dorothy, and Jean
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Contents
A Vow of Nonviolence
9
Foreword
by John Stoner
11
Acknowledgments
15
Introduction
17
1. Violence Means Forgetting Who We Are
31
2. Nonviolence is the Spirit of Love and Truth Which Remembers
43
3. A Vow is a Channel of Grace
56
4. The Need for Great Love in a Time of Great Need
64
5. The Vow of Nonviolence: A Pledge of Peaceful Resistance and Active Love
83
6. Implications for the Life of Vowed Nonviolence
92
7. The High Price of Nonviolent Love
113
8. Gandhi and the Vow of Nonviolence
131
9. Jesus, the Model of Nonviolence
147
Conclusion
170
Prayer for a Disarmed Heart
174
Questions for Prayerful Reflection
175
Scripture Passages for Meditation and Reflection on Nonviolence
177
Notes
178
Suggested Readings
184
The Author
191
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The choice today is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are not allowed to kill innocent people. We are not allowed to be complicit in murder. We are not allowed to be silent while preparations for mass murder proceed in our name, with our money, secretly.... Thou shalt not kill; we are not allowed to kill. Everything today comes down to thateverything. Daniel Berrigan
I shall die, but that is all I shall do for death. Edna St. Vincent Millay
I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith. Mohandas Gandhi
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