http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/tags View tagged content by tags en http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/cpt/article_060823wink.shtml <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>The belief that violence “saves” is so successful because it doesn’t seem to be mythic in the least. Violence simply appears to be the nature of things. It’s what works. It seems inevitable, the last and, often, the first resort in conflicts. If a god is what you turn to when all else fails, violence certainly functions as a god. What people overlook, then, is the religious character of violence. It demands from its devotees an absolute obedience- unto-death.</p> </div> </div> </div> http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/cpt/article_060823wink.shtml#comment Peace and War News Brief myth of redemptive violence non violence nonviolence peacemaking Walter Wink Comment Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:49:01 +0000 Walter Wink 6268 at http://www.ekklesia.co.uk http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5363 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>What is really at stake in the row between Sony and Manchester Cathedral over a violent video game? Simon Barrow looks at it in terms of Christendom, 'redemptive violence', image as commodity and the onset of the hyperreal.</p> </div> </div> </div> http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5363#comment Education and Culture Peace and War People and Power Religion and Society church of england Manchster Cathedral Mark Clapham myth of redemptive violence Resistance: The Fall of Man Simon Barrow Sony Corporation Walter Wink Culture and Review Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:36:59 +0100 Simon Barrow 5363 at http://www.ekklesia.co.uk