Original scientific paper
CHRISTIANITV, PEACE AND WAR
Carlo Prandi
; University of Parma, Parma
Abstract
If religion, as some scientists claim and whose opinion the author
share, is sometimes a factor of the social disintegration and not
only of its cohesion, and if we look at Christianity from the historic
point of view, then we should really ask ourselves about the
responsibility of Christianity in many painful historic events. The
thesis about "the just war", created by Augustinian, which gave
people the opportunity to form their judgment about the character
of war, finds itself today in a very difficult situation. Many things
were justified with the help of this thesis: the crusades, the colonial
struggies, the big Reformation wars in Europe. Bartolorne da Las
Casas, the first fighter for human rights and together with him,
some attempts of accomodation in China and India ("The Malabar
Rituals"), represent a bright examples of opposing the offensive
attacks of European civilization which acted in the name of
Christian God, but, in fact, against other nations and religions. That
is the reason why, today, we should welcome all the ecumenical
and peaceable initiatives which show that religions fighting for
peace should discover again their own, original, ethical
parameters.
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Hrčak ID:
33037
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Publication date:
1.3.1994.
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