{"title":"Identifying Martyrdom","authors":"Matthew D. Lundberg","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197566596.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197566596.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explains the origins of the language and theology of Christian martyrdom. The chapter explores the relationship between martyrdom as a passive suffering of violence for Christian identity and the possibility of martyrdom resulting from active Christian advocacy. That raises the question of whether active service of God and neighbor can ever rightly involve violence. If so, can those who die in the course of such activity ever rightly be considered martyrs? Answering such questions requires clarity on what markers identify the Christian martyr. The chapter thus concludes with a preliminary list of “criteria” of Christian martyrdom.","PeriodicalId":349079,"journal":{"name":"Christian Martyrdom and Christian Violence","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126536375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Violence, Jesus, and Just War Reasoning","authors":"Matthew D. Lundberg","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780197566596.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780197566596.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the deeper logic of just war thinking by analyzing its central distinction between aggressive violence and responsive violence, as well as its recognition of the threat of destructive synergy between the two. The chapter considers whether the teaching of Jesus renders impossible any Christian sanctioning of even defensive violence, as insisted by the peace church traditions. Through a consideration of the Sermon on the Mount and a theological appraisal of the imitatio Christi motif in relation to martyrdom, the chapter upholds just war reasoning as theologically defensible. It suggests that the pacifist and just war traditions both require a precarious wager in relation to faithfulness and thus serve as one another’s external consciences in the face of the ambiguity of violence.","PeriodicalId":349079,"journal":{"name":"Christian Martyrdom and Christian Violence","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122268894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}