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Contents | Liberating
Nonviolence: The Spirituality and Practice of Christian Nonviolence Instructors Ken Butigan and Louis Vitale Institution Franciscan School of Theology and Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley |
This course will investigate the spirituality, dynamics and strategies of Christian nonviolence. It will examine the ways in which the practice of active nonviolence can be a liberating force in our lives and the life of the world. The course will draw on the teachings and practices of the Christian peace and justice tradition; Christian feminism; and Gandhian nonviolence.
We have access to a number of fascinating videos on "nonviolence in action". We are open to showing a number of these videos after class, beginning at 3:30, in the same room. We will talk more about this in class.
February 3: Introduction: The Journey from Violence to Wholeness
February 10: Confronting the Woundedness: The Experience and Dynamics of Violence
READINGS: Wink, Introduction, Chapters 1-2, pp. 3-49.
Dear, John, Forgetting Who We Are (IN: From Violence To Wholeness, pp. 69-71).
February 17: No class
February 24: The Faithful Nonviolence of Jesus
READINGS: Wink, Chapters 3-5, pp. 51-104.
HANDOUT: James W. Douglass, The Nonviolent Coming of God (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1991), pp. 1-28.
March 3: Francis, Clare and Nonviolence
READINGS: Wink, Chapters 6-8, pp. 105-168.
St. Francis of Assisi, "The Canticle of Brother Sun" (IN: From Violence To
Wholeness, p. 87).
March 10: Gandhi and the Nonviolence of Soul-Force
READINGS: Wink, Chapters 9-13, pp. 169-257.
HANDOUT: Thomas Merton, Gandhi on Non-Violence (New York: New Directions, 1965),
pp. 1-20.
Gene Sharp, "Gandhi's Political Significance" (IN: From Violence To Wholeness,
pp. 77-86).
March 17: Nonviolent Social Change in Action: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
READINGS: Wink, pp. Chapters 14-17, 259-324.
M.L. King, Jr., "King's Principles of Nonviolence" (IN: From Violence To
Wholeness, p. 57).
__________, "Letter From the Birmingham Jail" (IN: booklet: Martin Luther King,
A.J. Muste Memorial Institute)
__________, "Loving Your Enemies" (IN: booklet: Martin Luther King, A.J. Muste
Memorial Institute)
HANDOUT: Martin Luther King, Jr., "Nonviolence and Social Change," Trumpet of Conscience (New York: Harper & Row, 1967).
March 24: No class (Reading Week)
April 1: No class (FST holiday)
April 7: Jesus: The Sacrament of Nonviolence
READINGS: Dear, pp. ix-42, Forward, Chapters 1-3.
April 14: Nonviolence and Feminism
READINGS: Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza, "Introduction," Violence Against Women, Fiorenza and Shawn Copeland, eds. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994), pp. vii-xxiv.
HANDOUT: Pam McAlister, You Can't Kill the Spirit: Stories of Women and Nonviolent
Action (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1988), pp. 19-31, 190-209.
K. Louise Schmidt, "Violence Against Women and Children" and "You Can't
Kill the Spirit" (IN: From Violence To Wholeness, pp. 72-76).
Dear, Chapter 14 ("Feminism and Nonviolence"), pp. 134-143.
April 21: Violence, Nonviolence and the Earth
READINGS: Dear, Chapters 4-7, pp. 43-75.
April 28: Nonviolence and Social Transformation; Case-Study: The United Farm Workers
READINGS: Bill Moyer, "Strategic Assumptions of the Movement Action Plan"
(IN: From Violence To Wholeness, pp. 90-92).
Dear, Chapters 8-11, 76-114.
Cesar Chavez, "Letter from Delano" (IN: From Violence To Wholeness, pp.
88-89).
Servicio Paz y Justicia, "Preparing for Nonviolence" (IN: From Violence To
Wholeness, pp. 93-96).
May 5: Case-Study: Nonviolence and Nuclear Weapons
READINGS: Dear, Chapters 12-13 and 15, pp. 115-131 and pp. 144-157.
May 12: Case Study: Nonviolence and International Conflict
READINGS: HANDOUT: Lisa Schirch, Keeping the Peace: Exploring Civilian Alternatives
in Conflict Prevention (Uppsala, Sweden: Life & Peace Institute, 1995), pp. 1-15.
Dear, Chapters 16-17, pp. 158-177.
May 19: Building Nonviolent Community
READINGS: Dear, Chapters 18-20, pp. 178-197.
Bill Cane, "The Church Universal: Circles of Faith" (IN: From Violence To
Wholeness, pp. 97-100).
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