PAX 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Khudai Khidmatgar, Peace Churches, Peace Brigades International
28 Sep 2017
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Ethic of reciprocity: directs people to care for everyone equally without considering weather they are part of one"s own family, tribe, or community. Emperor constantine i: transformed christianity into an official and favored roman state religion the ethnic of reciprocity belongs only to the city of god, augustine argued, and this realm of goodness is unattainable. Christians living on earth in what augustine labeled the city of man should instead participate in slavery, torture, violence and war. Later after the protestant reformation, several of what are now called historic peace churches or simply peace churches emerged to practice the ethic of reciprocity and oppose the claim that harming others is acceptable christian behavior. Petr chelcicky: a leader of a heretical group that espoused in the 15th century in what is now the check republic. He believed killing was bad no matter who was doing it.
