Remembering pioneer Australian pacifist Charles Strong : including his 'Thoughts on Armistice Day' (Armistice Day, 1920) / edited by Norman Habel
- Bib ID:
- 8076994
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Reservoir, Vic. : Morning Star Publishing, 2018
- © 2018
- 124 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780648376507 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"I fear that Armistice Day did not bring any repentance, any sense of responsibility for the war, any sense of the awful scandal to Christendom with such a spectacle as that of Christians of one nation killing Christians of another nation--in the name of Christ." The above quote is the closing word of the famous Armistice Day speech by the Rev. Charles Strong on Armistice Day in 1920. Now, a hundred years after the original Armistice Day, we honor Charles Strong and remember his ardent advocacy for peace. This volume remembering Charles Strong as a pioneer pacifist in the late 19th and early 20th century was launched as part of Pacifism Convocation held in his honor, 100 years after the original Armistice Day in 1918. Soon after Armistice Day in 1920, Charles Strong delivered his famous Armistice Day speech in which he questioned whether the mindset of Armistice Day was consistent with genuine Christian values. The heart of that speech is included in this volume. A number of the articles in this volume are by current members of the Charles Strong Trust Advisory Council. Some of these articles explore the culture and context of Strong's world; others include authors committed to the cause of peace. As a whole, this volume explores in depth the social, political, spiritual and moral dimensions of the profound Christian pacifism of Charles Strong.-- back cover.
- Full contents:
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- Preface: one hundred years later
- Democracy and war / Charles Strong
- Thoughts on Armistice Day / Charles Strong
- Charles Strong's life as a pacifist / Norman Habel
- Charles Strong - pioneer Australian pacifist: biography
- 'Democracy and war' and 'Thoughts on Armistice Day' illuminated / Anne Gardner
- The Spiritual basis for Charles Strong's pacifism / Norman Habel
- Pacifism: historical phenomenon and philosophical problem / John D'Arcy May
- Opposition to conscription: Strong and Mannix / Robert Crotty
- Charles Strong's Australian Church: a network for justice and peace / Marion Maddox
- Just war or just peace? / Paul Rule
- Charles Strong, Eleanor Moore and the Foundation of Women's International League for Peace & Freedom / Ruth Russell
- The 'modified pacifism' of Charles Strong / Malcolm Saunders
- Conclusion - peace on earth
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Habel, Norman C, editor
- Copyright:
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